I noticed :) But the question was if such a feature could make it to the trunk - and as far as I see, there is enough interest around this.
----- Reply message ----- From: "Tristan Tarrant" <tristan.tarr...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 05:56 Subject: New feature / educational project To: <dev@cassandra.apache.org> With Java 6 there is no need to add rhino as there already is the javax.script package Tristan On Feb 8, 2011 9:56 PM, "Morten Wegelbye Nissen" <m...@monit.dk> wrote: > Hello mighty developers of Cassandra, > > I have been thinking of creating a feature like stored procedures for > Cassandra. > Concept is actually pretty simple add one of the javascript compilers. ( > Mozilla Rhino or one alike ). Save js source in a CF in the system > keyspace. Add feature to thrift to invoke the code. Return just like > get_slice. > Needless to say that the execution environment needs access to the > keyspaces and needs to be sandboxed. (ie. no access to filesystem etc. ) > > On the cli it would be something like; > invoke myProc param1, param2, > param3 > > The alternative where the expansions, like the existing once, is done by > implementing interfaces. Would require a rather complex distribution of > jars. > > Now I might have the option to get this done as a educational project, > where I after the project would like to release the code to freedom. > > Would a feature like that ever make it to the core of Cassandra? > > ./Morten
