Mapping API

The Datastax Java driver provides a mapping API that helps to map our query results to Java classes. This API is provided as a separate artifact. We're using mapping API version 2.1.4 in our examples, below are dependency details:

// Maven Dependancy
<dependency>
   <groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>
   <artifactId>cassandra-driver-mapping</artifactId>
   <version>2.1.4</version>
</dependency>
// Gradle Dependancy
compile 'com.datastax.cassandra:Cassandra-driver-mapping:2.1.4'

The mapping API provides annotations to map a Java class to a Cassandra table. For example, our Status class can be mapped to Cassandra table status_updates_by_user, as in the following example of Status.java, updated as per the mapping API:

package cassandra.cassandraclient.model;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.UUID;

import com.datastax.driver.mapping.annotations.Column;
import com.datastax.driver.mapping.annotations.PartitionKey;
import com...