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T Jake Luciani commented on CASSANDRA-1034:
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My view is a Key requires a Token in our system. I understand that you cant
keep multiple keys from mapping to the same token, still I would have liked to
see the code deal with Tokens with (optional) keys then a mix of keys and
tokens. I see now this idea is broken in the sense that sorting a list of
tokens means different things depending on the context (partitioner bounds vs
user defined range)
> Remove assumption that Key to Token is one-to-one
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-1034
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1034
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Stu Hood
> Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.1
>
> Attachments:
> 0001-Make-range-accept-both-Token-and-DecoratedKey.patch,
> 0002-LengthPartitioner.patch, 1034-1-Generify-AbstractBounds-v3.patch,
> 1034-2-Remove-assumption-that-token-and-keys-are-one-to-one-v3.patch,
> 1034_v1.txt, CASSANDRA-1034.patch
>
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> get_range_slices assumes that Tokens do not collide and converts a KeyRange
> to an AbstractBounds. For RandomPartitioner, this assumption isn't safe, and
> would lead to a very weird heisenberg.
> Converting AbstractBounds to use a DecoratedKey would solve this, because the
> byte[] key portion of the DecoratedKey can act as a tiebreaker.
> Alternatively, we could make DecoratedKey extend Token, and then use
> DecoratedKeys in places where collisions are unacceptable.
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