[CASSANDRA-10482] Remove usage of JSON value when writing the commit log header

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Later
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Carl Yeksigian
• Created: 08/Oct/15 17:10
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 12/Jan/16 16:40

Description

Currently, when writing the commit log header, we use JSON to encode the compression information. That usage is inconsistent with CompressionMetadata, where the options are instead encoding using the count of options and the text of the options, and the compressor class name is written out.