[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-1186) futureproof [KS|CF]MetaData

["Jeff Hammerbacher (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on CASSANDRA-1186:
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I feel comfortable saying that the serialization format for Avro will not change again in the 1.x series, and the object file container almost certainly will not change.

> futureproof [KS|CF]MetaData
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>
>                 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
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 0.7
>
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> 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.

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