[CASSANDRA-2888] CQL support for JDBC DatabaseMetaData

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.2
• Labels: cql newbie

Environment

J2SE 1.6.0_22 x64 on Fedora 15

• Assignee: Rick Shaw
• Reporter: Dave Carlson

Authors

Rick Shaw

• Created: 12/Jul/11 15:16
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 14/Jul/11 16:52

Description

In order to increase the drop-in capability of CQL to existing JDBC app bases, CQL must be updated to include at least semi-valid responses to the JDBC metadata portion.

without enhancement:

>>> com.largecompany.JDBCManager.getConnection("<vague Cassandra JNDI pointer>")
Resource has error: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: method not supported
...

with enhancement:
>>> com.largecompany.JDBCManager.getConnection("<vague Cassandra JNDI pointer>")
org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.CassandraConnection@1915470e