[CASSANDRA-16794] CassandraVersion compareTo does not order SNAPSHOT versions properly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0
• Component/s: Legacy/Core
• Bug Category: Code
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 4.0-alpha1

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/b42855282d260bcd16412a1ed9da0227ee0c065e

Test and Documentation Plan

The patch add some tests to cover the failling usecases

• Assignee: Benjamin Lerer
• Reporter: Benjamin Lerer

Authors

Benjamin Lerer

Reviewers

Michael Semb Wever

• Created: 09/Jul/21 09:57
• Updated: 01/Aug/21 13:32
• Resolved: 12/Jul/21 11:16

Description

CassandraVersion::compareTo does not order SNAPSHOT versions properly in several scenario.
It return wrong results for the 2 following usecases:

1. new CassandraVersion("4.0-rc2").compareTo(("4.0.0-SNAPSHOT")
2. new CassandraVersion("4.0-rc2").compareTo(("4.0-rc2-SNAPSHOT")