On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Joshua Partogi <joshua.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know whether my assumption is right or not. When I tried to insert a > Time value into a column I am getting this exception: > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift-0.5.0/lib/thrift/protocol/binary_protocol.rb:106:in > `write_string' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift-0.5.0/lib/thrift/client.rb:35:in `write' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift-0.5.0/lib/thrift/client.rb:35:in `send_message' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/cassandra-0.9.0/lib/./vendor/0.7/gen-rb/cassandra.rb:213:in > `send_batch_mutate' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/cassandra-0.9.0/lib/./vendor/0.7/gen-rb/cassandra.rb:208:in > `batch_mutate' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.0/lib/thrift_client/abstract_thrift_client.rb:115:in > `send' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.0/lib/thrift_client/abstract_thrift_client.rb:115:in > `handled_proxy' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.0/lib/thrift_client/abstract_thrift_client.rb:57:in > `batch_mutate' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/cassandra-0.9.0/lib/cassandra/0.7/protocol.rb:8:in > `_mutate' > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/cassandra-0.9.0/lib/cassandra/cassandra.rb:130:in > `insert' > > But I am not getting any error if I insert a Time value into a sub-column. > > Is this an error or does it suppose to work that way? > > Thanks heaps for the insight.
IIRC when we wrote that code the idea was to require strings for everything and have users do their own serialization. In that context, the supercolmn behavior is the wrong one here. -ryan -- @rk
