Better type support

[edwardcapriolo]

Look at what they did here to grab cql types...https://github.com/mkjellman/perlcassa

[edwardcapriolo]

StorageService.cfmetadata each column we pull out from Compact Tables if we have it.

[edwardcapriolo]

Currently we are using the type of the object sent to Intravert to derive the byte buffer. In all cases this is not correct.

rm = new RowMutation(ks,IntraService.byteBufferForObject(IntraService.resolveObject(op.getOp().get("rowkey"), req, res, state, i)));

Resolve object should:
Do nothing with ByteBuffer and return it
Wrap byte [] in ByteBuffer and return it
if (object){
if (have assume data on column family){
use the assume data to convert object to byte buffer
return it
} else {
get meta data for object
if ( no meta data){
use a default option string = utf8Type , long = longType, etc
} else {
if (object is convertable to type metadata says){
convert it
return it
} else {
throw exception
}
}
}
}
There are other wrinkles in here for Ref and Object [].

[zznate]

Do we have/can we list a set of test criteria for the above? ie. in case x, do y, etc.

Starting with a truth table there will allow us to build a really solid unit test.

[edwardcapriolo]

That is not a bad idea to have one specific unit test. Currently we have different unit test covering this in different ways. The bulk of this is going to be extracting CFMetaData and CQL metadata in a useful way.