On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 22:34 -0700, Arin Sarkissian wrote: > But realistically how much of this confusion could be avoided with a > legit example? Once you see a good example you start getting it. A lot > of people have been pointed towards the ThriftIterface page on the > wiki which clears up next to nothing: > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ThriftInterface . There's stuff like > "edges", "base_attributes" etc. It's next door to nonsensical.. > > What if we had a real example that people could relate to... a model a > blog or something along those lines & update the > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ThriftInterface page to show how each > on the API methods would be used to accomplish basic tasks... ex: get > all comments for a blog entry, list entires in time order, list > entries tagged "bar", find all entries with "foo" in the body (kinda > like the Facebook mail search example).
Full ACK. Renaming everything carries a huge cost for (IMO) dubious benefit. However, the cost-to-benefit ratio for better documentation and samples seems excellent. -- Eric Evans [email protected]
