cassandra.cqlengine.usertype - Model classes for User Defined Types¶

UserType¶

class cassandra.cqlengine.usertype.UserType(**values)¶

This class is used to model User Defined Types. To define a type, declare a class inheriting from this, and assign field types as class attributes:

# connect with default keyspace ...

from cassandra.cqlengine.columns import Text, Integer
from cassandra.cqlengine.usertype import UserType

class address(UserType):
    street = Text()
    zipcode = Integer()

from cassandra.cqlengine import management
management.sync_type(address)

Please see User Defined Types for a complete example and discussion.

__type_name__ = None¶

Optional. Sets the name of the CQL type for this type.

If not specified, the type name will be the name of the class, with it’s module name as it’s prefix.