[CASSANDRA-1047] Get hadoop ColumnFamily metadata from describe_keyspace instead of config file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.4
• Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 03/May/10 21:16
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 26/Jul/10 21:32

Description

Requiring the Hadoop job to contain a copy of the Cassandra configuration file is clunky and error-prone. Instead, the Hadoop job should get an IP and port to contact for the range map and for CF metadata (with describe_keyspace).

Issue Links

• depends upon: CASSANDRA-1273 describe_keyspace not returning reconciler info