[CASSANDRA-15498] Empty clustering instead of Clustering.EMPTY

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha3, 4.0
• Component/s: Legacy/Local Write-Read Paths
• Bug Category: Correctness
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Since Version: 3.11.0

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/c6544fd200d1965b08ae2c40d2f9fd756a4367a9

Test and Documentation Plan

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• Assignee: Ekaterina Dimitrova
• Reporter: Ekaterina Dimitrova

Authors

Ekaterina Dimitrova

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 10/Jan/20 17:40
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:54
• Resolved: 10/Jan/20 18:08

Description

It seems that there are several ways to produce an empty clustering (with Kind.CLUSTERING) without using Clustering.EMPTY. They can be produced when copying another empty clustering (such as Clustering.EMPTY) , and also during deserialization when calling to Clustering.make