[CASSANDRA-17166] Enhance SnakeYAML properties to be reusable outside of YAML parsing, support camel case conversion to snake case, and add support to ignore properties

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Local/Config
• Change Category: Code Clarity
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/9b7e50b29bd029fc2151789306dc28864e1fc689

Test and Documentation Plan

added tests

• Assignee: David Capwell
• Reporter: David Capwell

Authors

David Capwell

Reviewers

Caleb Rackliffe, Stefan Miklosovic

• Created: 19/Nov/21 19:57
• Updated: 22/Oct/22 11:43
• Resolved: 23/Apr/22 03:18

Description

SnakeYaml is rather limited in the “object mapping” layer, which forces our internal code to match specific patterns (all fields public and camel case); we can remove this restriction by leveraging Jackson for property lookup, and leaving the YAML handling to SnakeYAML

Issue Links

• is blocked by: CASSANDRA-15234 Standardise config and JVM parameters
• is blocked by: CASSANDRA-17431 Move the rest of the Config parameters to the new Config framework
• is related to: CASSANDRA-15254 Allow UPDATE on settings virtual table to change running configurations
• links to: CI: trunk
• links to: GH PR: trunk