[CASSANDRA-14627] CASSANDRA-9608 broke running Cassandra and tests in IntelliJ under Java 8

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Urgent
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Legacy/Testing
• Labels: Java11
• Severity: Critical
• Assignee: Jordan West
• Reporter: Jordan West

Authors

Jordan West

Reviewers

Jason Brown

• Created: 08/Aug/18 06:28
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:29
• Resolved: 10/Aug/18 12:42

Description

CASSANDRA-9608 added a couple hard-coded options to workspace.xml that are not supported in Java 8: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/6ba2fb9395226491872b41312d978a169f36fcdb#diff-59e65c5abf01f83a11989765ada76841.

Unrecognized option: --add-exports
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

To reproduce:
1. Update to the most recent trunk
2. rm -rf .idea && ant generate-idea-files
3. Re-open the project in IntelliJ (using Java 8) and run Cassandra or a test.