[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-17292) Move cassandra.yaml toward a nested structure around major database concepts

["Caleb Rackliffe (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Caleb Rackliffe created CASSANDRA-17292:
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             Summary: Move cassandra.yaml toward a nested structure around major database concepts
                 Key: CASSANDRA-17292
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17292
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Caleb Rackliffe
            Assignee: Caleb Rackliffe


Recent mailing list conversation (see "[DISCUSS] Nested YAML configs for new features") has made it clear we will gravitate toward appropriately nested structures for new parameters in {{cassandra.yaml}}, but from the scattered conversation across a few Guardrails tickets (see CASSANDRA-17212 and CASSANDRA-17148) and CASSANDRA-15234, there is also a general desire to eventually extend this to the rest of {{cassandra.yaml}}. The benefits of this change include those we gain by doing it for new features (single point of interest for feature documentation, typed configuration objects, logical grouping for additional parameters added over time, discoverability, etc.), but one a larger scale.

This may overlap with ongoing work, including the Guardrails epic. Ideally, even a rough cut of a design here would allow that to move forward in a timely and coherent manner (with less long-term refactoring pain).

While these would have to be adjusted to CASSANDRA-15234 (probably after it merges), there have been two proposals floated already for what this might look like:

From [~maedhroz] - https://github.com/maedhroz/cassandra/commit/49e83c70eba3357978d1081ecf500bbbdee960d8

From [~benedict] - https://github.com/belliottsmith/cassandra/commits/CASSANDRA-15234-grouping-ideas



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