How to generate TimeUUID in Java/Scala

Question

Does anyone know how to generate TimeBased UUIDs in Java/Scala?

Here is the column family:

CREATE table col(ts timeuuid)

I'm using Cassandra 1.2.4

Appreciate your help!

Answer 1

If you are using the Datastax drivers you can use the utility class, UUIDs, to generate one

import com.datastax.driver.core.utils.UUIDs;
....
UUID timeBasedUuid = UUIDs.timeBased();

Answer 2

Cassandra has UUIDGen for generating Timeuuids. The source for this is here:

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-2.1/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/UUIDGen.java

Answer 3

i am using the same way for cassandra cli, and for column name i am using

System.currentTimeMillis().toString

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scala>     val timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis().toString
timestamp: String = 1406279679674

UPDATE

mainly it depends on your row key if rowKey is your userId or something, then there is no chance of submission of duplicate record in miliseconds but if you think it can be repeat then use

val timestamp = com.eaio.uuid.UUIDGen.newTime().toString