[CASSANDRA-1524] remove requirement for unnecessary quoting in cli

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.6
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Pavel Yaskevich

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 21/Sep/10 16:06
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 28/Sep/10 00:03

Description

Currently the cli requires quoting almost everything, and is fragile when they are not supplied. For example:

[default@unknown] connect localhost/9160
Connected to: "Test Cluster" on localhost/9160
[default@unknown] use Keyspace1
Authenticated to keyspace: Keyspace1
[default@Keyspace1create column family CF1 with comparator='UTF8Type'
acbec076-c597-11df-a09b-e700f669bcfc
[default@Keyspace1] set CF1['key1'][col1] = 'value'
line 1:16 mismatched input 'col1' expecting StringLiteral
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError

At a minimum, it needs to not crash when the quotes are omitted (e.g. around col1 here). But what I'd really like is for quotes to be optional except when required to escape a significant character like a space or bracket, i.e., this entire session should work w/o any quotes at all.