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Question

Not able to connect to cassandra database using cassandra-driver.

Cassandra version is 2.1.5, cassandra-driver version is 2.1.

var cassandra = require("cassandra-driver");

var cassandraClient = new cassandra.Client({ contactPoints: [ hostAddress ], keyspace: [name] });

cassandraClient.connect(function (err, result) {

    if(err) {
       console.log('Can not connect to Cassandra host - ', config.cassandra.host);
       console.log('Error connecting cassandra is - ', err);
    } else {
       console.log('Successfully connected to cassandra.');
    }

}); cassandraClient.on('log', function(level, className, message, furtherInfo) { console.log('log event: %s -- %s', level, message); });

Answer 1

On debugging found that name of keyspace was undefined.