Only one F remains.

[sergey-nagaytsev]

Please review my addition of one-way format function for date. I feel it's a bit smelly, but can't come up with any other idea. What is documented / standartized way of dealing with dates and timezones in your experience, workshop etc ?

Why did you comment out database fixture creation/cleanup ? Why put in code values different from DB script ?

Tests, among other purposes, are intended for user who freshly downloads a package to be capable of quickly examining it, without digging into sysadmin matters, figuring out how to configure database etc.

Running every test with known state is crucial. No permanent test data. No dependency on running order. I researched DBunit, it can prepare little datasets for every test, but it itself needs Cassandra adapter: sebastianbergmann/dbunit#154

Do you have remote Cassandra with permanent test data ? Why not local ? Disabled system() function ?

[balalaikaboy]

I apologize for mistakenly committed the CP4DBaseTestCase file, which disabled local DB creation + cleanup. I reinstalled my PC and connected remotely to my Cassandra system on AWS. I totally agree with you on the test data.
Also, sorry for the late reply. I have just come back from a trip where Internet access was not available :)

[sergey-nagaytsev]

ok, got it !

• Will you fix the last failure - CP4DTest.php#L53 ? Looks too cryptic for me - it's likely not type cast since type cast is outright exception, but still likely breaks comparison.
• I was willing to add Continuous Integration ( http://docs.travis-ci.com/ ), but this takes easily installable binary dependencies, namely YACassandraPDO and Apache Thrift. However, they are in quite ramshackle condition (see error: ‘org::apache::thrift’ has not been declared Orange-OpenSource/YACassandraPDO#75 (comment)), so it will take a substantial package maintainer work. How do you install them ? Do you have packages ? I do so by manual compilation and checkinstall, every time PHP API gets boosted and extensions get obsolete.
• Will you write Doctrine types for all Cassandra types, with tests ?
• How do you use this package ? Internally at work, or created just for the sake of common good ? How battle-tested is it ?

P.S. I have a dream of Cassandra becoming as common as MySQL for PHP, this will make great shift - anyone can write website standing under load of all mankind. This will take lots of networking value improvements - good Doctrine adapter will improve adoption and attracted commitment to pdo_cassandra etc.

My nearest goal is Symfony app with FOSUserBundle and it's companions (authorization etc) work on Cassandra, or even a mock social network (user+groups+friends+messages+blogs+comments) so others can bend it towards more focused community, business software etc.

[balalaikaboy]

The last test now passes, please verify. I simply changed the signature of the function into convertToDatabaseValue($value, AbstractPlatform $platform). The reason is PHP does not support method overloading.

I just created this PHP package for fun, hoping someone out here may find it useful. I do use Cassandra extensively for Java projects, where I need to handle lots of writes concurrently. The communication is done via Spring Data Cassandra. Typically I use Cassandra in a mixed environment: MySQL+Cassandra+Solr. The search engine is needed to handle queries across shards and spatial data.

Regarding the CI, I don't know if that is even possible, given the many dependencies and compilation complexity. I ran into much trouble to get it up and running on my Mac, including the manual editing of cassandra_driver.cpp and TBinaryProtocol.h.

I too firmly believe that Cassandra will become the natural choice when it comes to choosing a NoSQL solution for projects with heavy loads. I am currently working with MongoDB as well, yet I still prefer Cassandra for all the good things that it has to offer.