A basic demo CRUD application using the DataStax C/C++ Driver for Apache Cassandra. Run the quickstart_complete.c file if you want to skip the exercise and run the application with the complete code.
Contributors: Rebecca Mills
Objectives
- To demonstrate how to perform basic CRUD operations with the DataStax C/C++ Driver.
- The intent is to help users get up and running quickly with the driver.
How this Sample Works
This project walks through basic CRUD operations using Cassandra. The demo application will first insert a row of user data, select that same row back out, update the row and finally delete the user. The README includes the code snippets to be filled in to the main application code to complete the functionality.
Project Layout
- quickstart.c - main application file with space to fill in CRUD operation code
- users.cql - Use this file to create the schema
Prerequisites
- A running instance of Apache Cassandra® 1.2+
- CMake v2.6.4+
- libuv 1.x
- OpenSSL v1.0.x or v1.1.x
Create the keyspace and table
The users.cql
file provides the schema used for this project:
CREATE KEYSPACE demo
WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': '1'};
CREATE TABLE demo.users (
lastname text PRIMARY KEY,
age int,
city text,
email text,
firstname text);
Getting the Driver
You can obtain binary versions of the driver, available for various operating systems and architectures, from our DataStax download server.The driver source code is available via GitHub.The C/C++ driver will build on most standard Unix-like and Microsoft Windows platforms. Packages are available for the following platforms:
If you are on MacOS, once you have the source code and nescesaary dependencies, you can build the driver with CMake:
mkdir build
pushd build
cmake ..
make
make install
popd
For more help with getting dependencies and building the driver from source code on different operating systems, check out the documentation on building the driver.
Once you have completed filling in the code blocks (with the driver installed on Linux/MacOS) you also have the option of generating the quickstart executable with CMake, and the CMake configuration file provided. Follow these steps:
- Clone quickstart-c repository
cd quickstart-c
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
Connect to your cluster
All of our code is contained in the quickstart.c
file.
A new CassCluster
object will need to be created and configured to connect a session to our Cassandra instance. The minimal configuration needed to connect is a list of hosts. If you are not using localhost
for your instance, provide the ip address of of your node in the main() function.
// TO DO: Fill in your own host
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
CassCluster* cluster = NULL;
CassSession* session = cass_session_new();
char* hosts = "127.0.0.1";
char* keyspace = "demo";
CRUD Operations
Fill the code in the functions that will add a user, get a user, update a user and delete a user from the table with the driver.
INSERT a user
CassError insert_user(CassSession* session, const Users* users) {
CassError rc = CASS_OK;
CassStatement* statement = NULL;
CassFuture* future = NULL;
// TO DO: execute a simple statement that inserts one user into the table
const char* query =
"INSERT INTO users (lastname, age, city, email, firstname) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)";
statement = cass_statement_new(query, 5);
cass_statement_bind_string(statement, 0, users->lastname);
cass_statement_bind_int32(statement, 1, users->age);
cass_statement_bind_string(statement, 2, users->city);
cass_statement_bind_string(statement, 3, users->email);
cass_statement_bind_string(statement, 4, users->firstname);
future = cass_session_execute(session, statement);
cass_future_wait(future);
rc = cass_future_error_code(future);
if (rc != CASS_OK) {
print_error(future);
}
cass_future_free(future);
cass_statement_free(statement);
return rc;
}
SELECT a user
CassError select_user(CassSession* session, const char* lastname) {
CassError rc = CASS_OK;
CassStatement* statement = NULL;
CassFuture* future = NULL;
// TO DO: execute a simple statement that retrieves one user from the table
const char* query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE lastname=?";
statement = cass_statement_new(query, 1);
cass_statement_bind_string(statement, 0, lastname);
future = cass_session_execute(session, statement);
cass_future_wait(future);
rc = cass_future_error_code(future);
if (rc != CASS_OK) {
print_error(future);
} else {
const CassResult* result = cass_future_get_result(future);
const CassRow* row = cass_result_first_row(result);
if (row) {
const char *firstname = NULL;
size_t firstname_length = 0;
cass_int32_t age = 0;
//TO DO: print firstname and age of user
cass_value_get_string(cass_row_get_column_by_name(row, "firstname"), &firstname,
&firstname_length);
cass_value_get_int32(cass_row_get_column_by_name(row, "age"), &age);
printf("firstname: '%.*s' age: %d\n", (int)firstname_length, firstname, age);
}
cass_result_free(result);
}
cass_statement_free(statement);
cass_future_free(future);
return rc;
}
UPDATE a user's age
CassError update_user_age(CassSession* session, const char* lastname, cass_int32_t age) {
CassError rc = CASS_OK;
CassStatement* statement = NULL;
CassFuture* future = NULL;
// TO DO: execute a simple statement that updates the age of one user
const char* query = "UPDATE users SET age =? WHERE lastname =?";
statement = cass_statement_new(query, 2);
cass_statement_bind_int32(statement, 0, age);
cass_statement_bind_string(statement, 1, lastname);
future = cass_session_execute(session, statement);
cass_future_wait(future);
rc = cass_future_error_code(future);
if (rc != CASS_OK) {
print_error(future);
}
cass_future_free(future);
cass_statement_free(statement);
return rc;
}
DELETE a user
CassError delete_user(CassSession* session, const char* lastname) {
CassError rc = CASS_OK;
CassStatement* statement = NULL;
CassFuture* future = NULL;
const char* query = "DELETE FROM users WHERE lastname=?";
statement = cass_statement_new(query, 1);
cass_statement_bind_string(statement, 0, lastname);
future = cass_session_execute(session, statement);
cass_future_wait(future);
rc = cass_future_error_code(future);
if (rc != CASS_OK) {
print_error(future);
}
cass_future_free(future);
cass_statement_free(statement);
return rc;
}
License
Copyright 2019 Rebecca Mills
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.