{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/datastax/nodejs-driver/issues/37","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/datastax/nodejs-driver/issues/37/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/datastax/nodejs-driver/issues/37/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/datastax/nodejs-driver/issues/37/events","html_url":"https://github.com/datastax/nodejs-driver/issues/37","id":64643903,"number":37,"title":"query: 'DESCRIBE TABLE <keyspaceName>.<tableName>;'  fails.","user":{"login":"UnbounDev","id":7390369,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7390369?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev","html_url":"https://github.com/UnbounDev","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-03-26T22:04:50Z","updated_at":"2015-03-27T16:18:49Z","closed_at":"2015-03-27T08:53:01Z","body":"Using the client to execute query `'DESCRIBE TABLE <keyspaceName>.<tableName>;'` (where `<keyspaceName>` and `<tableName>` represent an existing keyspace/table pair) fails w/ the following error:\r\n\r\n```\r\n{ [ResponseError: line 1:0 no viable alternative at input 'DESCRIBE']\r\n  name: 'ResponseError',\r\n  message: 'line 1:0 no viable alternative at input \\'DESCRIBE\\'',\r\n  info: 'Represents an error message from the server',\r\n  code: 8192,\r\n  query: 'DESCRIBE TABLE <keyspaceName>.<tableName>;' }\r\n```\r\n\r\nNote that the query runs successfully when executed via the CQL shell."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/datastax/nodejs-driver/issues/comments/86993351","html_url":"https://github.com/datastax/nodejs-driver/issues/37#issuecomment-86993351","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/datastax/nodejs-driver/issues/37","id":86993351,"user":{"login":"UnbounDev","id":7390369,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7390369?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev","html_url":"https://github.com/UnbounDev","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/UnbounDev/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-27T16:18:49Z","updated_at":"2015-03-27T16:18:49Z","body":"Thanks for the quick response - and the tip! I'll work around q/ the system tables while waiting for `DESCRIBE` to make it into cql."}}