cassandra 2.0 catch 101

This is my experience with cassandra 2.0 and cqlsh, reading through the datastax documentation [1] , sometime you need to play around with the new tool to understand with the nature of the usage. It could be a bug, it could be just some changes, nonetheless, it is my experience reading and experiencing in cassandra 2.0. Some bugs may be fix or change in the later cassandra release and thus render this article invalid.. thus this article is only meant for cassandra 2.0 and cqlsh 4.0.0 . I will add more in my journey to cassandra 2.0


when updating config durable_writes to the keyspace, got a few times error... like below.

cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : false};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : false};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 'false'};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 'false'};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 0};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 0};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 1};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 1};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : '1'};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : '1'};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : '0'};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : '0'};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 'False'};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 'False'};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 'True'};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : 'True'};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : True};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : True};] reason: NullPointerException null
cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : False};
Bad Request: Failed parsing statement: [alter keyspace jw_schema1 WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3, durable_writes : False};] reason: NullPointerException null

just specified as one config in the alter keyspace command. It strange alter keyspace is not in the cqlsh help file...

cqlsh:jw_schema1> alter keyspace jw_schema1 with durable_writes = false;
cqlsh:jw_schema1> DESCRIBE KEYSPACE jw_schema1;

CREATE KEYSPACE jw_schema1 WITH replication = {
  'class': 'SimpleStrategy',
  'replication_factor': '3'
} AND durable_writes = 'false';

voila!

[1] http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/webhelp/index.html#cassandra/configuration/configStorage_r.html#reference_ds_itw_wkz_1k
[2] http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html#alterKeyspaceStmt