[CASSANDRA-7603] cqlsh fails to decode blobs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1 rc5
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Labels: qa-resolved
• Severity: Normal
• Since Version: 2.1 rc4
• Assignee: Tom Hobbs
• Reporter: Tom Hobbs

Authors

Tom Hobbs

Reviewers

Aleksey Yeschenko

• Tester: Ryan McGuire
• Created: 23/Jul/14 22:33
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 25/Jul/14 18:12

Description

As described in PYTHON-101, cqlsh patches the python driver's deserialization method for BytesType for formatting purposes. When the bundled driver was upgraded to 2.1, the patch was not updated to match, resulting in an error like this:

cqlsh:unicode> select * from test;
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ryan/.ccm/repository/git_cassandra-2.1/bin/cqlsh", line 908, in perform_simple_statement
    rows = self.session.execute(statement, trace=self.tracing_enabled)
  File "/home/ryan/.ccm/repository/git_cassandra-2.1/bin/../lib/cassandra-driver-internal-only-2.1.0b1.post.zip/cassandra-driver-2.1.0b1.post/cassandra/cluster.py", line 1186, in execute
    result = future.result(timeout)
  File "/home/ryan/.ccm/repository/git_cassandra-2.1/bin/../lib/cassandra-driver-internal-only-2.1.0b1.post.zip/cassandra-driver-2.1.0b1.post/cassandra/cluster.py", line 2610, in result
    raise self._final_exception
TypeError: validate() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)