Datastax Cassandra Driver throwing CodecNotFoundException

When you call bind(params...) on a PreparedStatement the driver expects you to provide values w/ java types that map to the cql types.

This error ([timestamp <-> java.lang.String]) is telling you that there is no such Codec registered that maps the java String to a cql timestamp. In the java driver, the timestamp type maps to java.util.Date. So you have 2 options here:

1. Where the column being bound is for a timestamp, provide a Date-typed value instead of a String.
2. Create a codec that maps timestamp <-> String. To do so you could create sub class of MappingCodec as described on the documentation site, that maps String to timestamp:

public class TimestampAsStringCodec extends MappingCodec<String, Date> {
    public TimestampAsStringCodec() { super(TypeCodec.timestamp(), String.class); }

    @Override
    protected Date serialize(String value) { ... }

    @Override
    protected String deserialize(Date value) { ... }
}

You then would need to register the Codec:

cluster.getConfiguration().getCodecRegistry()
    .register(new TimestampAsStringCodec());