Somewhat of an aside. But wasn't issues with client serialization issues one of the reasons to get away from thrift? It seems like asking client language to decode complex objects recreates the problem only with 1 degree more complexity.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Theo Hultberg <t...@iconara.net> wrote: > thanks! yeah, I meant user defined types, but thanks for the description of > general custom types too, it's good to know. > > T# > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Theo Hultberg <t...@iconara.net> wrote: > > > > > Mikhail, thanks, but I meant the reverse of that. Say the user creates > a > > > prepared statement where one of the columns is a custom type, how do > you > > > serialize the arguments to the prepared statement? Do you accept > anything > > > and let C* complain, or do you make a best effort to shoehorn the > object > > > the user passed into something that looks like the custom type? > > > > > > > Just to be clear, by "custom type", you still mean a user-defined type, > > correct? > > > > At least in the python driver, it's treated the same as any other > > (parametrized) type. For each Cassandra type (UTF8Type, Int32Type, etc), > > the driver will accept values of one or more types. If any of the > subtypes > > don't match this, the driver will raise an exception. > > > > If you're actually talking about custom types and not user-defined types, > > I'll explain what the python driver does. If the typestring (e.g. > > org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MyType) isn't recognized, the driver will > > expect a binary string that it can pass directly to Cassandra for values > of > > that type. If the user wants to add driver-level support for it (to > enable > > converting a python object to a binary string and vice-versa), they can > > subclass cassandra.cqltypes.CassandraType and define a serialize() and > > deserialize() method. The only condition is that the python classname > must > > match the typestring from cassandra, so for > > org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MyType, the user will create a > > MyType(CassandraType) class. > > > > -- > > Tyler Hobbs > > DataStax <http://datastax.com/> > > >
