[CASSANDRA-3098] Weird/hex "Column Name:" formatting with "describe keyspaces"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Not A Problem

Environment

Cassandra 0.8.4 (and today's cassandra-0.8 branch)
java version "1.6.0_20"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9.9) (fedora-54.1.9.9.fc14-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode)

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonas Borgström
• Created: 29/Aug/11 12:07
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 29/Aug/11 12:12

Description

Displaying a newly created column family with column_metadata displays some kind of hex representation of the column names instead of something more human readable:

[default@test] create column family Foo3 with column_metadata = [{ column_name: mycolumn, validation_class: UTF8Type }, { column_name: mycolumn2, validation_class: UTF8Type }];
4f266c60-d236-11e0-0000-242d50cf1fbf
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster
[default@test] describe keyspace;                                                                                                                                               
Keyspace: test:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
    Options: [datacenter1:1]
  Column Families:
    ColumnFamily: Foo3
      Key Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
      Default column value validator: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
      Columns sorted by: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
      Row cache size / save period in seconds: 0.0/0
      Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400
      Memtable thresholds: 0.2953125/1440/63 (millions of ops/minutes/MB)
      GC grace seconds: 864000
      Compaction min/max thresholds: 4/32
      Read repair chance: 1.0
      Replicate on write: true
      Built indexes: []
      Column Metadata:
        Column Name: fffcfffff2   <--- I expected this to say 'mycolumn' or 'mycolumn2'
          Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type
        Column Name: ffffffff     <--- I expected this to say 'mycolumn' or 'mycolumn2'
          Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type