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Philip Thompson commented on CASSANDRA-8358:
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Second progress update:
1. JAVA-312 is still being finalized but should be done soon. At that point I
will begin on BulkLoader.
2. I am able to run pig locally against tables with a subset of data types.
Still waiting on CASSANDRA-8622 to ensure I am not breaking any of the pig
tests. Once everything is working locally, I will take Brandon's advice and run
Pig against a real cluster.
> Bundled tools shouldn't be using Thrift API
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-8358
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8358
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Aleksey Yeschenko
> Assignee: Philip Thompson
> Fix For: 3.0
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> In 2.1, we switched cqlsh to the python-driver.
> In 3.0, we got rid of cassandra-cli.
> Yet there is still code that's using legacy Thrift API. We want to convert it
> all to use the java-driver instead.
> 1. BulkLoader uses Thrift to query the schema tables. It should be using
> java-driver metadata APIs directly instead.
> 2. o.a.c.hadoop.cql3.CqlRecordWriter is using Thrift
> 3. o.a.c.hadoop.ColumnFamilyRecordReader is using Thrift
> 4. o.a.c.hadoop.AbstractCassandraStorage is using Thrift
> 5. o.a.c.hadoop.pig.CqlStorage is using Thrift
> Some of the things listed above use Thrift to get the list of partition key
> columns or clustering columns. Those should be converted to use the Metadata
> API of the java-driver.
> Somewhat related to that, we also have badly ported code from Thrift in
> o.a.c.hadoop.cql3.CqlRecordReader (see fetchKeys()) that manually fetches
> columns from schema tables instead of properly using the driver's Metadata
> API.
> We need all of it fixed. One exception, for now, is
> o.a.c.hadoop.AbstractColumnFamilyInputFormat - it's using Thrift for its
> describe_splits_ex() call that cannot be currently replaced by any
> java-driver call (?).
> Once this is done, we can stop starting Thrift RPC port by default in
> cassandra.yaml.
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