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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-1580:
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some things that give nonsense errors:

{code}
defa...@unknown] set CF2[a]
line 0:-1 mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting '='
Invalid Statement (Type: 0)

defa...@unknown] set CF2[a]=
line 0:-1 mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting set null
Not authenticated to a working keyspace.

defa...@keyspace1] set CF2[a][b]='asd
line 1:18 mismatched character '<EOF>' expecting '''
line 0:-1 mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting set null
Exception null

[defa...@keyspace1] crea              
line 1:0 no viable alternative at input 'crea'
Invalid Statement (Type: 0)

[defa...@keyspace1] create keyspace 'as
line 1:19 mismatched character '<EOF>' expecting '''
line 0:-1 mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting Identifier
Exception Required field 'name' was not present! Struct: KsDef(name:null, 
strategy_class:org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy, 
replication_factor:1, cf_defs:[])

[defa...@unknown] create keyspace 'asdf'                       
line 1:16 mismatched input ''asdf'' expecting Identifier
Exception Required field 'replication_factor' was not found in serialized data! 
Struct: KsDef(name:null, strategy_class:null, replication_factor:0, 
cf_defs:null)
[server logs org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolException and session dies]

[defa...@unknown] create keyspace asdf2 wi 
line 1:22 extraneous input 'wi' expecting EOF
e7f83b12-d183-11df-84e7-e700f669bcfc
[note keyspace still got created which it should not have been]

[defa...@unknown] create keyspace asdf3 with k
line 0:-1 mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting '='
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError
[this is an example of where we should not be exposing assertion messages]
{code}

Experiment and see what others you can find.

> make cli less crashy
> --------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-1580
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1580
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Tools
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
>             Fix For: 0.7.1
>
>         Attachments: CASSANDRA-1580.patch
>
>
> the cli tends to throw an exception and die when it gets unexpected input.  
> this is not very user-friendly.

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