primitive types have default values, (e.g. boolean, int, ...) but primative wrapper classes do not and can be null (e.g. Boolean, Integer, ...) create table wal { id timeuuid, follows timeuuid, read > write > primary key (id, follows) } begin: - insert into wal (timeuuid, parent timeuuid, // NOTE: Update operations have no meaning when they only contain primary key components, so // given that `properties` is ordered with the keys first if we find that the last element // is either a partition key or clustering column then we know we should just skip this operation. ColumnType ct = ((HelenusProperty) properties.toArray()[properties.size() - 1]).getColumnType(); if (ct != ColumnType.PARTITION_KEY && ct != ColumnType.CLUSTERING_COLUMN) { return; } public Stream sync() { ListenableFuture> future = async(); Futures.addCallback(future, new FutureCallback() { @Override public void onSuccess(String contents) { //...process web site contents } @Override public void onFailure(Throwable throwable) { log.error("Exception in task", throwable); } }); }