> Currently the only way for that would be iterating through the list of column
> families returned by the getCf_defs() method.
Yes.
BTW most people access cassandra via a higher level client, for the Java peeps
tend to use either Hector or Pelops. Aside from not having to code against
thrift they also provide connection management and retry features that are dead
handy.
Cheers
-
Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com
On 14 Jul 2011, at 23:59, Chandrasekhar M wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been playing around with Cassandra and its Java Thrift Client.
>
> From my understanding, one could get/retrieve a Keyspace, KsDef object, using
> the describe_keyspace(String name) method on the Cassandra.Client object.
>
> Subsequently, one could get a list of all the ColumnFamily definitions in a
> keyspace, using the getCf_defs() method on the KsDef Object.
>
> Is there a way to get a single ColumnFamily if I know the name of the
> columnfamily (just a convenience function) ?
>
> Currently the only way for that would be iterating through the list of column
> families returned by the getCf_defs() method.
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Chandra
>
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