Goals Overview

The Cassandra Plugin has the following goals.

• cassandra:start Starts up a test instance of Cassandra in the background.
• cassandra:stop Stops the test instance of Cassandra that was started using cassandra:start.
• cassandra:start-cluster Starts up a test cluster of Cassandra in the background bound to the local loopback IP addresses 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc.
• cassandra:stop-cluster Stops the test cluster of Cassandra that was started using cassandra:start-cluster.
• cassandra:run Starts up a test instance of Cassandra in the foreground.
• cassandra:load Runs a CQL script against the test instance of Cassandra.
• cassandra:repair Runs nodetool repair against the test instance of Cassandra.
• cassandra:flush Runs nodetool flush against the test instance of Cassandra.
• cassandra:compact Runs nodetool compact against the test instance of Cassandra.
• cassandra:cleanup Runs nodetool cleanup against the test instance of Cassandra.
• cassandra:delete Deletes the the test instance of Cassandra.
• cassandra:cql-exec Execute a CQL statement (directly or from a file) against the test instance of Cassandra.

Usage

General instructions on how to use the Cassandra Plugin can be found on the usage page. Some more specific use cases are described in the examples given below. Last but not least, users occasionally contribute additional examples, tips or errata to the plugin's wiki page.

In case you still have questions regarding the plugin's usage, please feel free to contact the user mailing list. The posts to the mailing list are archived and could already contain the answer to your question as part of an older thread. Hence, it is also worth browsing/searching the mail archive.

If you feel like the plugin is missing a feature or has a defect, you can fill a feature request or bug report in our issue tracker. When creating a new issue, please provide a comprehensive description of your concern. Especially for fixing bugs it is crucial that the developers can reproduce your problem. For this reason, entire debug logs, POMs or most preferably little demo projects attached to the issue are very much appreciated. Of course, patches are welcome, too. Contributors can check out the project from our source repository and will find supplementary information in the guide to helping with Cassandra.

Examples

To provide you with better understanding of some usages of the Plugin Name, you can take a look into the following examples:

• Developing a web application
• Integration tests

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