[CASSANDRA-15660] Unable to specify -e/--execute flag in cqlsh

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-beta1, 4.0
• Component/s: Tool/cqlsh
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Bug Category: Code - Bug - Unclear Impact
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 4.0

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/781e4862faab8dd10382ec296b122592edd0f6f0

Test and Documentation Plan

CI pending: https://circleci.com/workflow-run/8e4b4739-cb7c-40ad-a24d-8d7c0027eb4b

Added regression cqlsh dtest.
 

• Assignee: Zhao Yang
• Reporter: Stefan Miklosovic

Authors

Zhao Yang

Reviewers

Brandon Williams, Dinesh Joshi

• Created: 24/Mar/20 19:07
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:53
• Resolved: 16/Apr/20 16:54

Description

From mailing list:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r377099b632c62b641e4feef5b738084fc5369b0c7157fae867853597%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E

The bug looks like this:

$ /usr/bin/cqlsh -e 'describe keyspaces' -u cassandra -p cassandra 127.0.0.1

Usage: cqlsh.py [options] [host [port]]cqlsh.py: error: '127.0.0.1' is not a valid port number.

This is working in 3.x releases just fine but fails on 4.

The workaround for 4.x code as of today is to put these statements into file and use "-f" flag.

 

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-15697 cqlsh -e parsing bug
• links to: dtest link
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #502