That was it. Thanks thobbs :-) The queries work as expected now.


-Adi

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Tyler Hobbs <tyler@datastax.com> wrote:

> I looked again at the original email<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox//cassandra-user/201101.mbox/raw/%3CAANLkTik4Z_6OfvT4ByQ8_kpX_=thXYL39-BxwmQpCWo4@mail.gmail.com%3E/1>and noticed that besides the bit-shift issue that gets corrected in the next
> email in the thread, there is another problem.  The long is being created in
> little-endian order instead of big endian.
>
> Here's the fully correct way to pack a long:
>
> int64_t my_long = 12345678;
> char chars[8];
> for(int i = 7; i >= 0; i--) {
> chars[i] = my_long & 0xff;
> my_long = my_long >> 8;
> }
>
> std::string str_long(chars, 8);
>
> Column c1;
> c1.name = str_long;
> // etc ...
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Adi <adi.pandit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Environment: Cassandra 0.7.0 , C++ Thrift client on windows
>>
>> I have a column family with a secondary index
>>  ColumnFamily: Page
>>       Columns sorted by: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
>>       Built indexes: [Page.index_domain, Page.index_content_size]
>>       Column Metadata:
>>         Column Name: domain (646f6d61696e)
>>           Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type
>>           Index Name: index_domain
>>           Index Type: KEYS
>>         Column Name: original_content_size
>> (6f726967696e616c5f636f6e74656e745f73697a65)
>>           Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.LongType
>>           Index Name: index_content_size
>>           Index Type: KEYS
>>
>> As suggested by thobbs in an earlier posting I am sending the
>> original_content_size as binary strings. I am able to write and read from
>> the c++ client correctly.
>> But on the cassandra-cli I am not able to see the values of
>> original_content_size as longs. following are the results seen for a value 5
>> that was sent.
>>
>> get Page['test1234'][original_content_size];
>> => (column=6f726967696e616c5f636f6e74656e745f73697a65,
>> value=360287970189639680, timestamp=1299773217120)
>>
>> get Page['test1234'][original_content_size] as bytes;
>> => (column=6f726967696e616c5f636f6e74656e745f73697a65,
>> value=0500000000000000, timestamp=1299773217120)
>>
>> Similarly the queries do not work as expected. Example get Page where
>> domain = 'testabc.com' and original_content_size = 5; does not return the
>> row that was inserted.
>>
>> Any suggestions on what I might be doing incorrectly either in schema
>> definition or the way I am sending the values are welcome.
>>
>> -Adi
>>
>>
>
> --
> Tyler Hobbs
> Software Engineer, DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
> Maintainer of the pycassa <http://github.com/pycassa/pycassa> Cassandra
> Python client library
>
>