cassandra-cpp

This is a maintained Rust project that exposes the DataStax cpp driver at https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver/ in a somewhat-sane crate.

It is a wrapper around the raw driver binding crate cassandra-cpp-sys.

Documentation (crates.io).

Getting started

You can use this crate from cargo with

    [dependencies]
    cassandra-cpp = "0.10"

For this crate to work, you must first have installed the datastax-cpp driver. Follow the steps in the cpp driver docs to do so. Pre-built packages are available for most platforms.

Make sure that the driver (specifically libcassandra_static.a and libcassandra.so) are in your /usr/local/lib64/ directory

Documentation

You can view the API documentation by running cargo doc and visiting target/doc in your browser.

The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) documentation is likely to be useful.

Since this crate provides a relatively thin wrapper around the DataStax driver, you may also find the DataStax documentation and API docs useful.

Example

For a straightforward example see simple.rs.

There are additional examples included with the project in tests and examples.

Migrating from version 0.8

The API changed significantly in version 0.10. Here is a summary of the main changes. (Version 0.9 was skipped, for consistency with the cassandra-cpp-sys version number.)

Errors:

• The internal module errors and the underlying cassandra-cpp-sys crate are no longer exposed in the API. All necessary types are defined in this crate's root module.
• All errors are now reported consistently using a single newly-defined Error type.
  • The crate makes every effort to return an error rather than panicking.
  • CassError, CassErrorResult, and others are replaced by Error and CassErrorCode.
  • Several return types have changed from T to Result<T, Error>.

Futures:

• There is only a single future type, CassFuture, and it implements the Rust/Tokio futures API. It interoperates smoothly with existing futures code.
  • Future, CloseFuture, ResultFuture, PreparedFuture, SessionFuture are all subsumed.
  • wait is replaced with Future::wait; other methods have standard analogues as well. See the futures documentation for details.
  • Callbacks can no longer be set explicitly on a future; instead the normal futures mechanisms (e.g., and_then) should be used.

Values:

• The Column type is retired; instead use Value.
• Some Value getters have new names for consistency, e.g., get_flt and get_dbl are now get_f32 and get_f64 respectively.
• Value::get_string now gets a String, not a &str; you can get a &str with get_str.
• The "magic" auto-converting Row getters get_col and get_col_by_name are renamed to get and get_by_name respectively. This is to avoid confusion with get_column, which is something else entirely (it gets a Value from a Row).
• Values have a new is_null method to allow retrieving null values.
• UUIDs now support Eq and Ord.

Miscellaneous types:

• Several types which wrapped cassandra-cpp-sys types now have enums of their own, complete with implementations of Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Display, and FromStr. This includes BatchType, CassErrorCode, Consistency, LogLevel, SslVerifyFlag, and ValueType.
• CqlProtocol is now simply an alias for an integer.
• Contact points are now expressed as a simple string in the driver's preferred format. ContactPoints is retired.

Other:

• Logging uses the slog crate. It is no longer possible to set your own logging callback, but you can set the slog logger.
• Internally, the code is cleaner and smaller and some tests have been added.

License

This code is open source, licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 as described in LICENSE.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute to this project.

Development

This crate is regularly built by Travis; to see details of the most recent builds click on the "build" badge at the top of this page.

You must have the DataStax driver installed on your system in order to build this crate.

The unit tests assume Cassandra is running on the local host accessible on the standard port. The easiest way to achieve this is using Docker and the standard Cassandra image, with

docker pull cassandra
docker run -d --net=host --name=cassandra cassandra

You should run them single-threaded to avoid the dreaded org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException: Column family ID mismatch error. The tests share a keyspace and tables, so if run in parallel they interfere with each other.

cargo test -- --test-threads 1

Remember to destroy the container when you're done:

docker stop cassandra
docker rm cassandra

History

This project was forked from cassandra, which was no longer being maintained.