[CASSANDRA-859] update cassandra-cli for mandatory login()

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7 beta 1
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Eric Evans

Authors

Todd Lipcon

• Created: 08/Mar/10 18:07
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 26/Apr/10 18:20

Description

With the completion of CASSANDRA-714, the cli will need to be updated accordingly.

• Either the --keyspace command argument (or something equivalent entered interactively after startup), will need to be made required.
• The record specifier should be changed from `keyspace.column_family['row']' to `column_family['row']'.
• The keyspace name should be displayed in the prompt, instead of the fixed string "cassandra" as a reminder of the current working keyspace.

Additionally, a get_string_property("cluster name") was recently added to force connection errors to occur early (the name is also displayed in the banner). Since this changeset will make a login() call mandatory, the get_string_property() call will be unneeded and can be removed.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: CASSANDRA-714 remove keyspace argument from thrift methods