This is a work in progress project. The goal is to allow launching Cassandra during tests, and test your application against it (much like the plugin for maven). at this pre-mature phase, only the very basic functionality works (and only on linux/unix). API is not final, and might (probably will) change down the road. However, the plugin is already usable as is.

Add the following to your project/plugins.sbt file:

resolvers += "Sonatype OSS Releases" at "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases"
addSbtPlugin("com.github.hochgi" % "sbt-cassandra-plugin" % "0.6")

import com.github.hochgi.sbt.cassandra._
    
CassandraPlugin.cassandraSettings
   
test in Test <<= (test in Test).dependsOn(startCassandra)

To choose a specific version of cassandra (default is 2.0.9), you can use:

cassandraVersion := "2.1.2"

cassandra now shuts down by default when tests are done. to disable this behavior, set:

stopCassandraAfterTests := false

cassandra will also clean it's data by default when it stops (after tests or when invoking stopCassandra task explicitly). to disable this behavior, set:

cleanCassandraAfterStop := false

to use special configuration files suited for your use case, use:

cassandraConfigDir := "/path/to/your/conf/dir"

to intialize cassandra with your custom cassandra-cli commands, use:

cassandraCliInit := "/path/to/cassandra-cli/commands/file"

to intialize cassandra with your custom cql commands, use:

cassandraCqlInit := "/path/to/cassandra-cql/commands/file"

to change cassandra rpc port (note: even if you change the port on the configuration, this is the port number that will be used), use:

cassandraPort := "PORT_NUMBER"

timeout for waiting on cassandra to start (default is 20 seconds) can be configured with property (in seconds):

cassandraStartDeadline := 10

also, you may override any other configuration, e.g:

configMappings +=  "auto_snapshot" -> true
configMappings ++= Seq(
  "rpc_server_type" -> "sync", 
  "data_file_directories" -> {
    val list = new java.util.LinkedList[String]()
    list.add("/path/to/directory/on/disk1")
    list.add("/path/to/directory/on/disk2")
    list.add("/path/to/directory/on/disk3")
    list
  }
)

• don't use both CQL & CLI. choose only one...
• the configMappings key takes a sequence of (String,java.lang.Object), and should be compatible with actual value represented by the key in the yaml file.