[CASSANDRA-16500] Missing validation in AbstractType.writeValue():

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-rc1, 4.0
• Component/s: Local/Other
• Bug Category: Code
• Severity: Low
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: Code Inspection
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 4.0-beta4

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/eb68380866c9d96592580fefbc1b79a497a674bf

Test and Documentation Plan

PR: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/924

• Assignee: Alexandre Dutra
• Reporter: Benjamin Lerer

Authors

Alexandre Dutra

Reviewers

Andres de la Peña, Berenguer Blasi

• Created: 08/Mar/21 11:01
• Updated: 16/Mar/22 15:33
• Resolved: 25/Mar/21 19:59

Description

Some validation checks present in AbstractType.writeValue() in cassandra-3.11 are not there in trunk.
In 3.11 the checks used assertion. It would make sense to use IOExceptions instead as used in AbstractType.readValue().