describe keyspace or column family query not working

[Kuldeep Mishra]

Hi ,
    I am trying to execute following query but not working and throwing
exception

QUERY:--
     Cassandra.Client client;
     client.execute_cql3_query(ByteBuffer.wrap("describe keyspace
mykeyspace".getBytes(Constants.CHARSET_UTF8)),   Compression.NONE,
ConsistencyLevel.ONE);

     client.execute_cql3_query(ByteBuffer.wrap("describe table
mytable".getBytes(Constants.CHARSET_UTF8)),   Compression.NONE,
ConsistencyLevel.ONE);

but both query giving following exception,

STACK TRACE

InvalidRequestException(why:line 1:0 no viable alternative at input
'describe')
    at
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$execute_cql3_query_result.read(Cassandra.java:37849)
    at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:78)
    at
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.recv_execute_cql3_query(Cassandra.java:1562)
    at
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.execute_cql3_query(Cassandra.java:1547)

Please help..


Thanks and Regards
Kuldeep






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Thanks and Regards
Kuldeep Kumar Mishra
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