Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-commits-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 32136 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2010 23:54:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 8 Jul 2010 23:54:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 93791 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jul 2010 23:54:17 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-commits-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 93770 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jul 2010 23:54:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commits-help@cassandra.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list commits@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 93762 invoked by uid 99); 8 Jul 2010 23:54:16 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2000.0 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.22] (HELO thor.apache.org) (140.211.11.22) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:54:13 +0000 Received: from thor (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thor.apache.org (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o68NrpYF026079 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:53:52 GMT Message-ID: <29547620.274211278633231883.JavaMail.jira@thor> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:53:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stu Hood (JIRA)" To: commits@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [jira] Updated: (CASSANDRA-1186) futureproof [KS|CF]MetaData In-Reply-To: <9894658.66511276403953988.JavaMail.jira@thor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1186?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Stu Hood updated CASSANDRA-1186: -------------------------------- Attachment: 0001-Move-Yaml-related-classes-aside-to-reuse-names.patch 0002-Extract-Avro-generation-and-begin-generating-an-inte.patch 0003-Split-OutputBuffer-out-for-reuse.patch > futureproof [KS|CF]MetaData > --------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-1186 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1186 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Core > Affects Versions: 0.7 > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: Stu Hood > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 0.7 > > Attachments: 0001-Move-Yaml-related-classes-aside-to-reuse-names.patch, 0002-Extract-Avro-generation-and-begin-generating-an-inte.patch, 0003-Split-OutputBuffer-out-for-reuse.patch > > > KSMetaData/CFMetaData serialization is fragile. We need to be able to add fields easily without breaking when we read old-style serialized bytes. > Avro and Thrift are designed to handle this. We should probably use one of those rather than re-inventing the wheel. If Avro is mature enough for this then let's use that, otherwise let's use Thrift. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.