NAME

Protocol::CassandraCQL::Client - a minimal Cassandra CQL client

SYNOPSIS

 use Protocol::CassandraCQL::Client;
 use Protocol::CassandraCQL qw( CONSISTENCY_QUORUM );

 my $cass = Protocol::CassandraCQL::Client->new(
    PeerHost => "localhost",
    Keyspace => "my-keyspace",
 );

 my ( undef, $result ) = $cass->query( "SELECT v FROM numbers" );

 foreach my $row ( $result->rows_hash ) {
    say "We have a number $row->{v}";
 }

DESCRIPTION

This subclass of IO::Socket::IP implements a client that can execute queries on a Cassandra CQL database. It is not intended as a complete client, is simply provides enough functionallity to test that the protocol handling is working, and is used to implement the bundled examples/cqlsh utility.

For a more complete client, see instead Net::Async::CassandraCQL.

CONSTRUCTOR

$cass = Protocol::CassandraCQL::Client->new( %args )

Takes the following arguments in addition to those accepted by IO::Socket::IP:

Username => STRING

Password => STRING

Authentication credentials if required by the server.

Keyspace => STRING

If defined, selects the keyspace to USE after connection.

METHODS

( $result_op, $result_frame ) = $cass->send_message( $opcode, $frame )

Sends a message with the given opcode and Protocol::CassandraCQL::Frame for the message body. Waits for a response to be received, and returns it.

If the response opcode is OPCODE_ERROR then the error message string is thrown directly as an exception; this method will only return in non-error cases.

( $type, $result ) = $cass->query( $cql, $consistency )

Performs a CQL query. The returned values will depend on the type of query:

For USE queries, the type is keyspace and $result is a string giving the name of the new keyspace.

For CREATE, ALTER and DROP queries, the type is schema_change and $result is a 3-element ARRAY reference containing the type of change, the keyspace and the table name.

For SELECT queries, the type is rows and $result is an instance of Protocol::CassandraCQL::Result containing the returned row data.

For other queries, such as INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE, the method returns nothing.

( $type, $result ) = $cass->use_keyspace( $keyspace )

A convenient shortcut to the USE $keyspace query which escapes the keyspace name.

SPONSORS

This code was paid for by

• Perceptyx http://www.perceptyx.com/

• Shadowcat Systems http://www.shadow.cat

AUTHOR

Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>