Currently, the code is using bytes_opt and bytes_view_opt to represent
CQL values, which can hold a value or null. In preparation for
supporting a third state, unset value introduced in CQL v4, introduce
new raw_value and raw_value_view types and use them instead.
The new types are based on boost::variant<> and are capable of holding
null, unset values, and blobs that represent a value.
The test_assignement() function is invoked via the Cassandra unit tests
so we might as well implement it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@scylladb.com>
We use boost::any to convert to and from database values (stored in
serlialized form) and native C++ values. boost::any captures information
about the data type (how to copy/move/delete etc.) and stores it inside
the boost::any instance. We later retrieve the real value using
boost::any_cast.
However, data_value (which has a boost::any member) already has type
information as a data_type instance. By teaching data_type intances about
the corresponding native type, we can elimiante the use of boost::any.
While boost::any is evil and eliminating it improves efficiency somewhat,
the real goal is growing native type support in data_type. We will use that
later to store native types in the cache, enabling O(log n) access to
collections, O(1) access to tuples, and more efficient large blob support.
Before this patch the tombstone created in setter::execute() was never
applied if the new collection value was null.
Signed-off-by: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@cloudius-systems.com>
To prepare a user-defined type, we need to look up its name in the keyspace.
While we get the keyspace name as an argument to prepare(), it is useless
without the database instance.
Fix the problem by passing a database reference along with the keyspace.
This precolates through the class structure, so most cql3 raw types end up
receiving this treatment.
Origin gets along without it by using a singleton. We can't do this due
to sharding (we could use a thread-local instance, but that's ugly too).
Hopefully the transition to a visitor will clean this up.
