[CASSANDRA-8355] NPE when passing wrong argument in ALTER TABLE statement

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.3
• Component/s: Legacy/CQL

Environment

Cassandra 2.1.2

• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Benjamin Lerer Assign to me
• Reporter: Pierre Laporte

Authors

Benjamin Lerer

Reviewers

Robert Stupp

• Created: 21/Nov/14 17:01
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 12:31
• Resolved: 14/Jan/15 19:22

Description

When I tried to change the caching strategy of a table, I provided a wrong argument 'rows_per_partition' : ALL with unquoted ALL. Cassandra returned a SyntaxError, which is good, but it seems it was because of a NullPointerException.

Howto

CREATE TABLE foo (k int primary key);
ALTER TABLE foo WITH caching = {'keys' : 'all', 'rows_per_partition' : ALL};

Output

<ErrorMessage code=2000 [Syntax error in CQL query] message="Failed parsing statement: [ALTER TABLE foo WITH caching = {'keys' : 'all', 'rows_per_partition' : ALL};] reason: NullPointerException null">