[CASSANDRA-4827] cqlsh --cql3 unable to describe CF created with cli

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0 rc1
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Labels: cql3
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Aleksey Yeschenko
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Aleksey Yeschenko

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 17/Oct/12 21:55
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 10/Dec/12 15:07

Description

created CF with cli:

create column family playlists
with key_validation_class = UUIDType
 and comparator = 'CompositeType(UTF8Type, UTF8Type, UTF8Type)'
 and default_validation_class = UUIDType;

Then get this error with cqlsh:

cqlsh:music> describe table playlists;

/Users/jonathan/projects/cassandra/git-trunk/bin/../pylib/cqlshlib/cql3handling.py:771: UnexpectedTableStructure: Unexpected table structure; may not translate correctly to CQL. expected composite key CF to have column aliases, but found none
/Users/jonathan/projects/cassandra/git-trunk/bin/../pylib/cqlshlib/cql3handling.py:794: UnexpectedTableStructure: Unexpected table structure; may not translate correctly to CQL. expected [u'KEY'] length to be 3, but it's 1. comparator='org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType(org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type,org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type,org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type)'
CREATE TABLE playlists (
  "KEY" uuid PRIMARY KEY
)