By default bytes type is taken as the validator for cassandra-column-values.This cannot be changed for the inserted records. In cassandra-cli use the following command to see the result in ascii
cli> assume validator as ascii;
cli> list
Question
Based on the Datastax webinar "C*hristmas Comes Early – Creating your First Java Application with Apache Cassandra", it looks like inserted columns that are not part of the schema default to a bytes datatype while column names are tied to String. Is there any way to change this?
Solution
By default bytes type is taken as the validator for cassandra-column-values.This cannot be changed for the inserted records. In cassandra-cli use the following command to see the result in ascii
cli> assume validator as ascii;
cli> list