How to auto generate uuid in cassandra CQL 3 command line

Question

Just learning cassandra, is there a way to insert a UUID using CQL, ie

create table stuff (uid uuid primary key, name varchar);
insert into stuff (name) valu         


        

Answer 1

Actually there is a way to do that using the blob conversion functions - blobAsType() and typeAsBlob(). In your case this should be:

insert into stuff (uid, name) values(blobAsUuid(timeuuidAsBlob(now())), 'my name');

This converts timeuuid to blob and from the blob converts it to uuid.