[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-6) HashingStrategy does not default to RANDOM if the conf file is missing this entry

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-6:
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attached patches that refuse to start up when things are broken.  (this means we don't need the "default" value patch anymore.)

> HashingStrategy does not default to RANDOM if the conf file is missing this entry
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Sandeep Tata
>            Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: 0001-don-t-manually-create-commitlog-directory-cassandra.patch, 0002-sanity-check-configuration-before-starting.patch, default_values_patch.txt
>
>   Original Estimate: 0.5h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0.5h
>
> When the conf file does not have a line for hashingstrategy, the value does not default to RANDOM, instead it goes to null because of:
> DatabaseDescriptor.java:147
> hashingStrategy_ = xmlUtils.getNodeValue("/Storage/HashingStrategy");

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