Have you seen https://github.com/pcmanus/ccm as described in http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/ccm-a-development-tool-for-creating-local-cassandra-clusters or does that not fit your use case?
On 9 Jul 2013, at 14:02, Łukasz Dywicki <l...@code-house.org> wrote: > Hello, > First of all I would like to say hello to cassandra user and developer > community. :) > > I write because we are using Cassandra in our unit tests and we have some > troubles with network connectivity. We ca not run multiple cassandra > instances during tests because we would need to randomize configuration of > port and so on. For now if we try to fork our tests we get "address already > in use" on one from two ports - native or thrift. In other apache projects we > can "VM" connectors (ActiveMQ, Camel, Mina) based on in-memory queue. I took > some time to see how CassandraDaemon starts servers and it's kinda of > hardcoded. I thought about changing configuration to be more like: > > servers: > - class org.apache.cassandra.thrift.ThriftServer > - class org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server > > Then we will be able to disable these servers for unit tests: > servers: > - class org.apache.cassandra.vm.VmServer > > This requires some small changes in daemon code and client libraries. I'm not > really deeply involved in cassandra stuff so I don't know the internal > architecture and implications thus I look forward for you to discuss this > topic. > > Cheers, > Łukasz Dywicki > -- > l...@code-house.org > Twitter: ldywicki > Blog: http://dywicki.pl > Code-House - http://code-house.org >
