private static Cassandra.Client createThriftClient(
     String host, int port, String user, String passwd, ITransportFactory transportFactory)
     throws Exception {
   TTransport trans = transportFactory.openTransport(host, port);
   TProtocol protocol = new TBinaryProtocol(trans);
   Cassandra.Client client = new Cassandra.Client(protocol);
   if (user != null && passwd != null) {
     Map<String, String> credentials = new HashMap<>();
     credentials.put(IAuthenticator.USERNAME_KEY, user);
     credentials.put(IAuthenticator.PASSWORD_KEY, passwd);
     AuthenticationRequest authenticationRequest = new AuthenticationRequest(credentials);
     client.login(authenticationRequest);
   }
   return client;
 }
    @Override
    public void init(String keyspace) {
      Iterator<InetAddress> hostiter = hosts.iterator();
      while (hostiter.hasNext()) {
        try {
          // Query endpoint to ranges map and schemas from thrift
          InetAddress host = hostiter.next();
          Cassandra.Client client =
              createThriftClient(
                  host.getHostAddress(), rpcPort, this.user, this.passwd, this.transportFactory);

          setPartitioner(client.describe_partitioner());
          Token.TokenFactory tkFactory = getPartitioner().getTokenFactory();

          for (TokenRange tr : client.describe_ring(keyspace)) {
            Range<Token> range =
                new Range<>(
                    tkFactory.fromString(tr.start_token),
                    tkFactory.fromString(tr.end_token),
                    getPartitioner());
            for (String ep : tr.endpoints) {
              addRangeForEndpoint(range, InetAddress.getByName(ep));
            }
          }

          String query =
              String.format(
                  "SELECT * FROM %s.%s WHERE keyspace_name = '%s'",
                  Keyspace.SYSTEM_KS, SystemKeyspace.SCHEMA_COLUMNFAMILIES_CF, keyspace);
          CqlResult result =
              client.execute_cql3_query(
                  ByteBufferUtil.bytes(query), Compression.NONE, ConsistencyLevel.ONE);
          for (CqlRow row : result.rows) {
            CFMetaData metadata = CFMetaData.fromThriftCqlRow(row);
            knownCfs.put(metadata.cfName, metadata);
          }
          break;
        } catch (Exception e) {
          if (!hostiter.hasNext())
            throw new RuntimeException("Could not retrieve endpoint ranges: ", e);
        }
      }
    }