[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-15115) WindowsFailedSnapshotTracker.deleteOldSnapshots() throws RuntimeException when it failed to create a file

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eBugs in Cloud Systems created CASSANDRA-15115:
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             Summary: WindowsFailedSnapshotTracker.deleteOldSnapshots() throws RuntimeException when it failed to create a file
                 Key: CASSANDRA-15115
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15115
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: eBugs in Cloud Systems


Dear Cassandra developers, we are developing a tool to detect exception-related bugs in Java. Our prototype has spotted the following {{throw}} statement whose exception class and error message seem to indicate different error conditions. Since we are not very familiar with Cassandra's internal work flow, could you please help us to verify if this is a bug, i.e., will the callers have trouble handling the exception, and will the users/admins have trouble diagnosing the failure?

 

Version: Cassandra-3.11 (commit: 123113f7b887370a248669ee0db6fdf13df0146e) 

File: CASSANDRA-ROOT/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/WindowsFailedSnapshotTracker.java

Line: 98

Class: {{RuntimeException}}

Error message: {{"Failed to create failed snapshot tracking file [%s]. Aborting"}}

Reason: {{RuntimeException}} is usually used to represent errors in the program logic (think of one of its subclasses, {{NullPointerException}}), while the error messages indicate that {{deleteOldSnapshots()}} failed to create a file. Will this mismatch be a problem? For example, will the callers miss the possibility that {{deleteOldSnapshots()}} can fail to create a file because it does not throw any {{IOException}}? Or, will the callers try to handle other {{RuntimeException}} accidentally (and incorrectly) handle the file creation failure?



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