http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cassandra-sstableloader-load-key-value-instead-of-uuid Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 11:23:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cassandra-sstableloader-load-key-value-instead-of-uuid#post-8906 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:17:54 +0000 kannanspec 8906@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>This is my table </p> <p>CREATE COLUMNFAMILY OM_CDMA_SECTOR_1 (<br /> ... KEY ascii PRIMARY KEY,<br /> ... '2012dec10' ascii,<br /> ... '2012dec11' ascii,<br /> ... '2012dec12' ascii,<br /> ... '2012dec13' ascii,<br /> ... '2012dec14' ascii,<br /> ... '2012dec15' ascii,<br /> ... '2012dec16' ascii<br /> ... ) </p> <p>I need to load the key column (primary key )from the file instead of UUID </p> <p>i replaced </p> <p> // ByteBuffer uuid = ByteBuffer.wrap(decompose(entry.CorrelationID));<br /> eventWriter.newRow(uuid);</p> <p>to </p> <p>eventWriter.addColumn(bytes("KEY"),bytes(entry.KEY), timestamp);</p> <p>it gives me below error</p> <p>[kmookaia@sql-xcc-vna2d01 apache-cassandra-1.1.0]$ ./run.sh cdma_sector_136.txt<br /> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.AbstractSSTableSimpleWriter.addColumn(AbstractSSTableSimpleWriter.java:115)<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.AbstractSSTableSimpleWriter.addColumn(AbstractSSTableSimpleWriter.java:130)<br /> at SSTableGenerator.main(SSTableGenerator.java:62)</p> <p>how do i load key value from a file using SSTableLoader?</p> <p>Any help appriciated </p>