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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-3031:
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I suppose we could provide a conversion tool that converts int -> long in cql
scripts.
I don't understand the claim that we need this for Hector compatibility,
though. My understanding is that our varint would be just fine with 32bit ints
-- since the length is part of the byte[] encoding, we don't have to do clever
things like hadoop's vint does
(http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/WritableUtils.html).
> Add 4 byte integer type
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-3031
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3031
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 0.8.4
> Environment: any
> Reporter: Radim Kolar
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: hector, lhf
> Fix For: 1.0
>
> Attachments: apache-cassandra-0.8.4-SNAPSHOT.jar, src.diff, test.diff
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> Cassandra currently lacks support for 4byte fixed size integer data type.
> Java API Hector and C libcassandra likes to serialize integers as 4 bytes in
> network order. Problem is that you cant use cassandra-cli to manipulate
> stored rows. Compatibility with other applications using api following
> cassandra integer encoding standard is problematic too.
> Because adding new datatype/validator is fairly simple I recommend to add
> int4 data type. Compatibility with hector is important because it is most
> used Java cassandra api and lot of applications are using it.
> This problem was discussed several times already
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.hector.user/2125
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2585
> It would be nice to have compatibility with cassandra-cli and other
> applications without rewriting hector apps.
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