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Ed Anuff commented on CASSANDRA-2231:
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This makes sense. In practice, I've made use of the fact that the embedded
types were dynamic to arbitrarily store additional metadata in the column
names, which this is going to preclude due to being strongly typed, but I think
that can be worked around here.
> Add CompositeType comparer to the comparers provided in
> org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-2231
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2231
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Contrib
> Affects Versions: 0.7.3
> Reporter: Ed Anuff
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: 0001-Add-compositeType.patch,
> edanuff-CassandraCompositeType-1e253c4.zip
>
>
> CompositeType is a custom comparer that makes it possible to create
> comparable composite values out of the basic types that Cassandra currently
> supports, such as Long, UUID, etc. This is very useful in both the creation
> of custom inverted indexes using columns in a skinny row, where each column
> name is a composite value, and also when using Cassandra's built-in secondary
> index support, where it can be used to encode the values in the columns that
> Cassandra indexes. One scenario for the usage of these is documented here:
> http://www.anuff.com/2010/07/secondary-indexes-in-cassandra.html. Source for
> contribution is attached and has been previously maintained on github here:
> https://github.com/edanuff/CassandraCompositeType
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