[CASSANDRA-4977] Expose new SliceQueryFilter features through Thrift interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Invalid
• Component/s: Legacy/CQL
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: aaa
• Created: 20/Nov/12 11:31
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 23/Nov/12 14:28

Description

SliceQueryFilter has some very useful new features like ability to specify a composite column prefix to group by and specify a limit of groups to return.

This is very useful if for example I have a wide row with columns prefixed by timestamp and I want to retrieve the latest columns, but I don't know the column names. Say I have a row
row -> (t1, c1), (t1, c2)... (t1, cn) ... (t0,c1) ... etc

Query slice range (t1,) group by prefix (1) limit (1)

As a more general question, is the Thrift interface going to be kept up-to-date with the feature changes or will it be left behind (a mistake IMO) ?