On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:43 +0100, Martin Probst wrote: > host:/opt/cassandra# bin/json2sstable -K Keyspace1 -c > col1 ../utf8_cassandra.json data/Keyspace1/col1-2-Data.db > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input > string: "PR" > at > java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48) > at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:447) > at > org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.hexToBytes(FBUtilities.java:255) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.addToStandardCF(SSTableImport.java:89) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.importJson(SSTableImport.java:156) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.main(SSTableImport.java:207) > > The Keyspace is configured as follows: > <Keyspace Name="Keyspace1"> > <ColumnFamily CompareWith="UTF8Type" Name="col1" Comment="some > data"/> > </Keyspace>
This is because hex strings are used to represent byte arrays in the JSON format, (i.e. the string 'PR' would be turned into something like '5052'). > Is there another way to import some data, maybe a tool or something? > I've used the latest stable cassandra version (0.5.0). As Jonathan stated, you're best bet is to tackle this using the Thrift interface first. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
