Creating an index, validator, and default validator then renaming/dropping the
index later results in read errors.
Is there an easy way around this problem without having to keep an invalid
definition for a column that will get deleted or expired?
1) create a secondary index on a column with a validator and a default validator
2) insert a row
3) read and verify the row
4) update the CF/index/name/validator
5) read the CF and get an error (CLI or Pycassa)
CLI Commands to create the row and CF/Index
create column family cf_testing with comparator=UTF8Type and
default_validation_class=UTF8Type and column_metadata=[{column_name: colour,
validation_class: LongType, index_type: KEYS}];
set cf_testing['key']['colour']='1234';
list cf_testing;
update column family cf_testing with comparator=UTF8Type and
default_validation_class=UTF8Type and column_metadata=[{column_name: color,
validation_class: LongType, index_type: KEYS}];
ERROR from the CLI:
list cf_testing;
Using default limit of 100
-------------------
RowKey: key
invalid UTF8 bytes 00000000000004d2
Here is the Pycassa client code that shows this error too.
badindex.py
#!/usr/local/bin/python2.7
import pycassa
import uuid
import sys
def main():
try:
keyspace="badindex"
serverPoolList = ['localhost:9160']
pool = pycassa.connect(keyspace, serverPoolList)
except:
print "couldn't get a connection"
sys.exit()
cfname="cf_testing"
cf = pycassa.ColumnFamily(pool, cfname)
results = cf.get_range(start='key', finish='key', row_count=1)
for key, columns in results:
print key, '=>', columns
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
