[CASSANDRA-1767] cli to/from string needs to move into AbstractType

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0 rc 2
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Pavel Yaskevich

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 22/Nov/10 21:20
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 23/Nov/10 16:26

Description

currently CLI cannot use custom data types since it doesn't know how to turn user-input strings into binary data. need to add "ByteBuffer fromString(String)" to AbstractType and move the conversion code from CliClient there.