The validation was wrongly assuming that empty thrift key, for which
the original C* code guards against, can only correspond to empty
representation of our partition_key. This no longer holds after:
commit 095efd01d6
"keys: Make from_exploded() and components() work without schema"
This was responsible for dtest failure:
cql_additional_tests.TestCQL:column_name_validation_test
* database now holds all keyspace + column family object
* column families are mapped by uuid, either generated or explicit
* lookup by name tuples or uuid
* finder functions now return refs + throws on missing obj
Holding keys and their prefixes as "bytes" is error prone. It's easy
to mix them up (or use wrong types). This change adds wrappers for
keys with accessors which are meant to make misuses as difficult as
possible.
Prefix and full keys are now distinguished. Places which assumed that
the representation is the same (it currently is) were changed not to
do so. This will allow us to introduce more compact storage for non-prefix
keys.
