Description
see http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg18132.html
Repo with
create keyspace Stats with placement_strategy = 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy' and strategy_options={replication_factor:1}; use Stats; create column family Sample_Stats with default_validation_class=CounterColumnType and key_validation_class='CompositeType(UTF8Type,UTF8Type)' and comparator='CompositeType(UTF8Type, UTF8Type)' and replicate_on_write=true; [default@Stats] describe cluster; Cluster Information: Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSnitch Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner Schema versions: 1d39bbf0-fb60-11e0-0000-242d50cf1ffd: [127.0.0.1]
Stop and restart the node
ERROR 10:12:22,729 Exception encountered during startup java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not inflate CFMetaData for {"keyspace": "Stats", "name": "Sample_Stats", "column_type": "Standard", "comparator_type": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType(org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type,org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type)", "subcomparator_type": null, "comment": "", "row_cache_size": 0.0, "key_cache_size": 200000.0, "read_repair_chance": 1.0, "replicate_on_write": true, "gc_grace_seconds": 864000, "default_validation_class": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CounterColumnType", "key_validation_class": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType", "min_compaction_threshold": 4, "max_compaction_threshold": 32, "row_cache_save_period_in_seconds": 0, "key_cache_save_period_in_seconds": 14400, "row_cache_keys_to_save": 2147483647, "merge_shards_chance": 0.1, "id": 1000, "column_metadata": [], "row_cache_provider": "org.apache.cassandra.cache.ConcurrentLinkedHashCacheProvider", "key_alias": null, "compaction_strategy": "org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy", "compaction_strategy_options": {}, "compression_options": {}} at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromAvro(CFMetaData.java:362) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.fromAvro(KSMetaData.java:193) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromStorage(DefsTable.java:99) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:502) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:161) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:337) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:106) Caused by: org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: Invalid definition for comparator org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType. at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.getRawAbstractType(TypeParser.java:319) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.getAbstractType(TypeParser.java:247) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.parse(TypeParser.java:83) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.parse(TypeParser.java:92) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromAvro(CFMetaData.java:358) ... 6 more Caused by: org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: Nonsensical empty parameter list for CompositeType at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType.getInstance(CompositeType.java:67) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType.getInstance(CompositeType.java:61) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.getRawAbstractType(TypeParser.java:307) ... 10 more
Will post the patch in a minute.