[CASSANDRA-4269] Setting column metadata for non-string comparator CFs breaks

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.1
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
• Reporter: Tom Hobbs

Authors

Sylvain Lebresne

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 21/May/12 21:39
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 22/May/12 15:13

Description

For example, use a comparator of LongType and try to create an index on a column named 2 (0x0000000000000002). You'll get a stracktrace in the logs similar to this:

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 2
	at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.ColumnIdentifier.<init>(ColumnIdentifier.java:50)
	at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.CFDefinition.<init>(CFDefinition.java:115)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.updateCfDef(CFMetaData.java:1278)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.columnMetadata(CFMetaData.java:225)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromThrift(CFMetaData.java:636)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.system_update_column_family(CassandraServer.java:1061)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_update_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3436)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_update_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3424)
	at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:32)
	at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:34)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:186)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 2
	at java.nio.charset.CoderResult.throwException(CoderResult.java:260)
	at java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder.decode(CharsetDecoder.java:781)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:163)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:120)
	at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.ColumnIdentifier.<init>(ColumnIdentifier.java:46)
	... 13 more

This works in Cassandra 0.8 and 1.0.