[CASSANDRA-4842] DateType in Column MetaData causes server crash

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.7, 1.2.0

Environment

All

• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
• Reporter: Russell Bradberry

Authors

Sylvain Lebresne

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 20/Oct/12 01:20
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 24/Oct/12 18:41

Description

when creating a column family with column metadata containing a date, there is a server crash that will prevent startup.

To recreate from the cli:

create keyspace test;
use test;
create column family foo
  with column_type = 'Standard'
  and comparator = 'CompositeType(LongType,DateType)'
  and default_validation_class = 'UTF8Type'
  and key_validation_class = 'UTF8Type'
  and column_metadata = [ 
    { column_name : '1234:1350695443433', validation_class : BooleanType} 
  ];

Produces this error in the logs:

ERROR 21:11:18,795 Error occurred during processing of message.
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: unable to coerce '2012-10-19 21' to a  formatted date (long)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:373)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announce(MigrationManager.java:194)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announceNewColumnFamily(MigrationManager.java:141)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.system_add_column_family(CassandraServer.java:931)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_add_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3410)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_add_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3398)
	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$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: unable to coerce '2012-10-19 21' to a  formatted date (long)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:222)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:83)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:369)
	... 11 more
Caused by: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: unable to coerce '2012-10-19 21' to a  formatted date (long)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DateType.dateStringToTimestamp(DateType.java:117)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DateType.fromString(DateType.java:85)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractCompositeType.fromString(AbstractCompositeType.java:213)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.ColumnDefinition.fromSchema(ColumnDefinition.java:257)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.addColumnDefinitionSchema(CFMetaData.java:1318)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchema(CFMetaData.java:1250)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.deserializeColumnFamilies(KSMetaData.java:299)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:434)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:346)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$1.call(MigrationManager.java:217)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
	... 3 more
Caused by: java.text.ParseException: Unable to parse the date: 2012-10-19 21
	at org.apache.commons.lang.time.DateUtils.parseDate(DateUtils.java:285)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DateType.dateStringToTimestamp(DateType.java:113)
	... 14 more
ERROR 21:11:18,795 Exception in thread Thread[MigrationStage:1,5,main]
org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: unable to coerce '2012-10-19 21' to a  formatted date (long)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DateType.dateStringToTimestamp(DateType.java:117)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DateType.fromString(DateType.java:85)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractCompositeType.fromString(AbstractCompositeType.java:213)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.ColumnDefinition.fromSchema(ColumnDefinition.java:257)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.addColumnDefinitionSchema(CFMetaData.java:1318)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchema(CFMetaData.java:1250)
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.deserializeColumnFamilies(KSMetaData.java:299)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:434)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:346)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$1.call(MigrationManager.java:217)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
	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:680)
Caused by: java.text.ParseException: Unable to parse the date: 2012-10-19 21
	at org.apache.commons.lang.time.DateUtils.parseDate(DateUtils.java:285)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DateType.dateStringToTimestamp(DateType.java:113)
	... 14 more

This error is repeated when attempting to restart the server, and results in the server failing to start.