[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-9618) Consider deprecating sstable2json/json2sstable in 2.2

["Sylvain Lebresne (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9618?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Sylvain Lebresne updated CASSANDRA-9618:
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    Attachment: 0001-Deprecate-sstable2json-and-json2sstable.patch

Simple patch that adds a warning to the 2 tools and document the deprecation in the changes file.

> Consider deprecating sstable2json/json2sstable in 2.2
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-9618
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9618
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
>             Fix For: 2.2.0 rc2
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>         Attachments: 0001-Deprecate-sstable2json-and-json2sstable.patch
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> The rational is explained in CASSANDRA-7464 but to rephrase a bit:
> * json2sstable is pretty much useless, {{CQLSSTableWriter}} is way more flexible if you need to write sstable directly.
> * sstable2json is really only potentially useful for debugging, but it's pretty bad at that (it's output is not really all that helpul in modern Cassandra in particular).
> Now, it happens that updating those tool for CASSANDRA-8099, while possible, is a bit involved. So I don't think it make sense to invest effort in maintain these tools. So I propose to deprecate these in 2.2 with removal in 3.0.
> I'll note that having a tool to help debugging sstable can be useful, but I propose to add a tool for that purpose with CASSANDRA-7464.



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