[CASSANDRA-5852] json2sstable breaks on data exported from sstable2json.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.10, 2.0.1
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Lyuben Todorov
• Reporter: Ryan McGuire

Authors

Lyuben Todorov

Reviewers

Sylvain Lebresne

• Created: 06/Aug/13 16:58
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 19/Sep/13 10:00

Description

Attached is a JSON formatted sstable generated by sstable2json.

This file cannot be loaded back into Cassandra via json2sstable; it outputs this error:

Counting keys to import, please wait... (NOTE: to skip this use -n <num_keys>)
Importing 16 keys...
java.lang.NumberFormatException: Non-hex characters in value6
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.Hex.hexToBytes(Hex.java:60)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.hexToBytes(ByteBufferUtil.java:503)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.stringAsType(SSTableImport.java:578)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.access$000(SSTableImport.java:59)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport$JsonColumn.<init>(SSTableImport.java:154)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.addColumnsToCF(SSTableImport.java:231)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.addToStandardCF(SSTableImport.java:214)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.importSorted(SSTableImport.java:432)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.importJson(SSTableImport.java:319)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableImport.main(SSTableImport.java:543)
ERROR: Non-hex characters in value6

Steps to reproduce:

$ ccm create -v git:trunk test-json-import
Fetching Cassandra updates...
Current cluster is now: test-json-import
$ ccm populate -n 1
$ ccm start
$ ccm node1 cqlsh
Connected to test-json-import at 127.0.0.1:9160.
[cqlsh 4.0.0 | Cassandra 2.0.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT | CQL spec 3.1.0 | Thrift protocol 19.37.0]
Use HELP for help.
cqlsh> CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': 1};
cqlsh> CREATE TABLE test.test (key varchar PRIMARY KEY, value varchar);
cqlsh> INSERT INTO test.test (key, value) VALUES ('ryan', 'ryan');
cqlsh> 
$ ccm node1 flush
$ ccm stop
$ ~/.ccm/test-json-import/node1/bin/json2sstable -s -K test -c test ~/Downloads/import_error/r.json ~/.ccm/test-json-import/node1/data/test/test/test-test-ja-1-Data.db 

Issue Links

• blocks: CASSANDRA-5853 Write dtests that use json2sstable