Basics of Hector & Cassandra

Question

I'm working with Cassandra-0.8.2. I am working with the most recent version of Hector & My java version is 1.6.0_26

I'm very new to Cassandra & Hector.

What I'm trying to do: 1. connect to an up & running instance of cassandra on a different server. I know it's running b/c I can ssh through my terminal into the server running this Cassandra instance and run the CLI with full functionality. 2. then I want to connect to a keyspace & create a column family and then add a value to that column family through Hector.

I think my problem is that this running instance of Cassandra on this server might not be configured to get commands that are not local. I think my next step will be to add a local instance of Cassandra on the cpu I'm working on and try to do this locally. What do you think?

Here's my Java code:

import me.prettyprint.cassandra.serializers.StringSerializer;
import me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.CassandraHostConfigurator;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.Cluster;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.Keyspace;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.ddl.ColumnFamilyDefinition;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.ddl.ComparatorType;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.factory.HFactory;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.mutation.Mutator;

    public class MySample {


        public static void main(String[] args) {


            Cluster cluster = HFactory.getOrCreateCluster("Test Cluster", "xxx.xxx.x.41:9160");
            Keyspace keyspace =  HFactory.createKeyspace("apples", cluster);
            ColumnFamilyDefinition cf = HFactory.createColumnFamilyDefinition("apples","ColumnFamily2",ComparatorType.UTF8TYPE);
            StringSerializer stringSerializer = StringSerializer.get();
            Mutator<String> mutator = HFactory.createMutator(keyspace, stringSerializer);
            mutator.insert("jsmith", "Standard1", HFactory.createStringColumn("first", "John"));
}
}

My ERROR is:

16:22:19,852  INFO CassandraHostRetryService:37 - Downed Host Retry service started with queue size -1 and retry delay 10s
16:22:20,136  INFO JmxMonitor:54 - Registering JMX me.prettyprint.cassandra.service_Test Cluster:ServiceType=hector,MonitorType=hector
Exception in thread "main" me.prettyprint.hector.api.exceptions.HInvalidRequestException: InvalidRequestException(why:Keyspace apples does not exist)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.HThriftClient.getCassandra(HThriftClient.java:70)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.HConnectionManager.operateWithFailover(HConnectionManager.java:226)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.KeyspaceServiceImpl.operateWithFailover(KeyspaceServiceImpl.java:131)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.KeyspaceServiceImpl.batchMutate(KeyspaceServiceImpl.java:102)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.KeyspaceServiceImpl.batchMutate(KeyspaceServiceImpl.java:108)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.MutatorImpl$3.doInKeyspace(MutatorImpl.java:222)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.MutatorImpl$3.doInKeyspace(MutatorImpl.java:219)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.KeyspaceOperationCallback.doInKeyspaceAndMeasure(KeyspaceOperationCallback.java:20)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.ExecutingKeyspace.doExecute(ExecutingKeyspace.java:85)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.MutatorImpl.execute(MutatorImpl.java:219)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.MutatorImpl.insert(MutatorImpl.java:59)
    at org.cassandra.examples.MySample.main(MySample.java:25)
Caused by: InvalidRequestException(why:Keyspace apples does not exist)
    at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$set_keyspace_result.read(Cassandra.java:5302)
    at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.recv_set_keyspace(Cassandra.java:481)
    at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.set_keyspace(Cassandra.java:456)
    at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.HThriftClient.getCassandra(HThriftClient.java:68)
    ... 11 more

Thank you in advance for your help.

Answer 1

The exception you are getting is,

why:Keyspace apples does not exist

In your code, this line does not actually create the keyspace,

Keyspace keyspace =  HFactory.createKeyspace("apples", cluster);

As described here, this is the code you need to define your keyspace,

ColumnFamilyDefinition cfDef = HFactory.createColumnFamilyDefinition("MyKeyspace", "ColumnFamilyName", ComparatorType.BYTESTYPE);

KeyspaceDefinition newKeyspace = HFactory.createKeyspaceDefinition("MyKeyspace", ThriftKsDef.DEF_STRATEGY_CLASS,  replicationFactor, Arrays.asList(cfDef));

// Add the schema to the cluster.
// "true" as the second param means that Hector will block until all nodes see the change.
cluster.addKeyspace(newKeyspace, true);

Answer 2

We also have a getting started guide up on the wiki as well which might be of some help.