Spring-data-cassandra's CassandraTemplate returns String, not a specified Object, when run queryForObject function. - spring-data-cassandra

Question

I've been going through the Spring Data Cassandra documentation (http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/cassandra/docs/1.0.1.RELEASE/reference/html/cassandra.core.html)
Basically, with proper annotation, I hoped the CassandraTemplate maps a row to a POJO object, but it didn't work as I expected.
For the call,
cassandraOps.queryForObject(s, Person.class)
I received an error as following:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to Person
Anything that I'm missing? Following is the same copy and paste from the doc above.
Person Class looks like:
#Table
public class Person {
#PrimaryKey
private String id;
private String name;
private int age;
public Person(String id, String name, int age) {
this.id = id;
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
}
public String getId() {
return id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public int getAge() {
return age;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "Person [id=" + id + ", name=" + name + ", age=" + age + "]";
}
}
and the application class looks like...:
public class CassandraApp {
private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CassandraApp.class);
private static Cluster cluster;
private static Session session;
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
cluster = Cluster.builder().addContactPoints(InetAddress.getLocalHost()).build();
session = cluster.connect("mykeyspace");
CassandraOperations cassandraOps = new CassandraTemplate(session);
cassandraOps.insert(new Person("1234567890", "David", 40));
Select s = QueryBuilder.select().from("person");
s.where(QueryBuilder.eq("id", "1234567890"));
LOG.info(cassandraOps.queryForObject(s, Person.class).getId());
cassandraOps.truncate("person");
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Answer 1

CassandraTemplate's queryForObject(String,Class) is not meant for arbitrary object mapping. It is modeled after JdbcTemplate's queryForObject(String,Class) method. It's intended to take types that the Cassandra driver can convert directly.
To convert arbitrary application-defined classes, use queryForObject(String,RowMapper<T>) or one of its overloads. CqlTemplate doesn't know how to map arbitrary classes; you have to supply the RowMapper<T> implementation for your class T.

Answer 2

you can do it like this way:-
String myQuery = "select * from person where id=1234567890";
Person personObj = cassandraOperations.selectOne(myQuery, Person.class);
<<
For all
List<Person> personListObj = cassandraOperations.select(myQuery, Person.class); >>
this work for me using cassandraTemplete object perfectly... didn't try for cassandraOperation.
also you might need #Column(value = "your_columnName_in_DB") if your pojo class's variable name is different
like
#Column(value = "name")
private String userName;
#Column(value = "age")
private int userAge;
revert here if its work?
Also can you help me pass dynamic value to that myQuery string.. using object[] same like prepareStatment in SQL
thanks.