How do you insert a blob into a Cassandra column family?

Question

I am trying to run the following command in cqlsh:

cqlsh:testreducedb> INSERT INTO commits (hash, tid, keyframe) VALUES (0b5db8b91bfdeb0a304b372dd8dda123b3fd1ab6, now(), true);

I am guessing that I am getting an error because the column hash is of type blob but I am trying to insert that commit hash 0b5db8b91bfdeb0a304b372dd8dda123b3fd1ab6.

How do you insert this in cqlsh?

Also I am getting the following error when running that command:

Bad Request: line 1:63 mismatched character '1' expecting '-'

Not very helpful to me, don't really know how to deal with it.

Answer 1

The blob literal must be started with "0x"

INSERT INTO commits (hash, tid, keyframe) VALUES (0x0b5db8b91bfdeb0a304b372dd8dda123b3fd1ab6, now(), true);