Getting cassandra connection error

cassandra, eclipse, java, maven

Solution

Use maven to import snappy/lz4 or whatever other compression your using.

LZ4

Snappy

Problem

I am unable to connect to Cassandra (ver2.0.5) using Eclipse. Here is the complete log from the error: 16:06:59.818 [main] WARN c.d.driver.core.FrameCompressor - Cannot find Snappy class, you should make sure the Snappy library is in the classpath if you intend to use it. Snappy compression will not be available for the protocol. [...] omitted for brevity

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