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Nate McCall commented on CASSANDRA-6147:
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That would actually be very helpful and would not break anything in the wild 
(Astyanax, Hector and (im pretty sure) pycassa all assert a not-null timestamp 
on egress anyhoo), so it would be unusual for someone to be relying on this as 
validation currently. 

> Break timestamp ties for thrift-ers
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6147
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6147
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>            Reporter: Edward Capriolo
>            Assignee: Edward Capriolo
>             Fix For: 2.1 beta2
>
>
> Thrift users are still forced to generate timestamps on the client side. 
> Currently the way the thrift bindings are generated users are forced to 
> supply timestamps. There are two solutions I see.
> * -1 as timestamp means "generate on the server side"
> This is a breaking change, for those using -1 as a timestamp (which should 
> effectively be no one.
> * Prepare yourself....
> Our thrift signatures are wrong, you can't overload methods in thrift
> thrift.get(byte [], byte[], ts) 
> should REALLY be changed to 
> GetRequest g =  new GetRequest()
> g.setName()
> g.setValue()
> g.setTs() ///optional 
> thrift. get( g )
> I know no one is going to want to make this change because thrift is 
> quasi/dead but it would allow us to evolve thrift in a meaningful way. We 
> could simple add these new methods under different names as well.



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