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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:15:01 -0500
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Subject: Re: Contribution: Native REST Layer for Cassandra
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Thanks Brian, we'll have a look on Jira.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Brian O'Neill <bone@alumni.brown.edu> wrot=
e:
> Jeremy/Jonathan,
>
> When you finish celebrating the 1.0 release, I just submitted a native re=
st
> layer for Cassandra.
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3380
>
> It uses JAX-RS and Apache CXF supporting the following operations (JSON o=
ver
> HTTP):
>
>
> =A0 - Create keyspace
> =A0 - Drop keyspace
> =A0 - Create column family
> =A0 - Drop column family
> =A0 - Insert row
> =A0 - Fetch row
> =A0 - Delete row
> =A0 - Insert column
> =A0 - Fetch column
> =A0 - Delete column
>
> This is a new module under contrib/rest. It builds using ant and ivy. =A0=
I
> also included a maven pom.xml file that makes it easier to get setup in
> Eclipse for those that use m2eclipse. =A0You start the server with
> bin/rest_cassandra. =A0After that, you can issue all commands over HTTP o=
n
> port 8080. =A0I included example curl commands in the README.txt. =A0Ther=
e are
> junit tests that provide good code coverage of the JSON marshalling, the
> system and data operations as well as the REST layer.
>
> Let me know if you have any trouble building / using it. =A0In the meanti=
me,
> I'll start work on some additional todo's. Specifically we should add:
> - Better exception handling
> - Host/Port configuration
> - Security
> - XML support
> - Binary object / Byte support (assumes String's right now)
>
> (kudos to Gary Dusbabek for the initial thought to implement this as a
> native layer)
>
> all the best,
> brian
>
> --
> Brian ONeill
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> mobile:215.588.6024
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>


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Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://www.datastax.com