[CASSANDRA-2497] CLI: issue with keys being interpreted as hex and causing SET statement to fail

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0 beta 2

Environment

• Single Node instance on MacOSX

• Nightly Compiled Build from 4/18/2011

• Installed from: https://builds.apache.org/hudson/job/Cassandra/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/cassandra/build/apache-cassandra-2011-04-18_11-02-29-bin.tar.gz

• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
• Reporter: Cathy Daw

Authors

Pavel Yaskevich

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 18/Apr/11 19:40
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 20/Apr/11 16:01

Description

Original Summary: Issues with Update Column Family and adding a key_validation_class
Changed summary because the issue repros on drop/create. see comment.

Reproduction Steps

create column family users with comparator = UTF8Type 
and column_metadata = [{column_name: password, validation_class: UTF8Type}];

update column family users with key_validation_class=UTF8Type;

set users['jsmith']['password']='ch@ngem3';          

EXPECTED RESULT: After the UPDATE statement, the SET statement should go through successfully.

ACTUAL RESULT: The SET statement gives the same error message, regardless of the UPDATE statement:

org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse 'jsmith' as hex bytes

Output from describe keyspace

    ColumnFamily: users
      Key Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type
      Default column value validator: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
      Columns sorted by: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type
      Row cache size / save period in seconds: 0.0/0
      Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400
      Memtable thresholds: 0.29062499999999997/62/1440 (millions of ops/MB/minutes)
      GC grace seconds: 864000
      Compaction min/max thresholds: 4/32
      Read repair chance: 1.0
      Replicate on write: false
      Built indexes: []
      Column Metadata:
        Column Name: password
          Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type