[CASSANDRA-17280] Deprecate JavaScript UDF

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.4, 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Feature/UDF
• Epic Link: Support Java 17
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/22a4ae16e46639c0ecc9934352499a3ea664f8d7

Test and Documentation Plan

https://github.com/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra/commit/7982a51929d422517ec47548ced0f1254285eb1a

• Assignee: Ekaterina Dimitrova
• Reporter: Ekaterina Dimitrova

Authors

Ekaterina Dimitrova

Reviewers

Berenguer Blasi, Marcus Eriksson

• Created: 23/Jan/22 17:39
• Updated: 24/Nov/22 15:40
• Resolved: 25/Feb/22 17:02

Description

There was a consensus  that JS UDF can be deprecated and removed with the next major release. 

As part of this ticket we can add:

• Warning to the users when they use them In 4.0.2
• Docs update
• Twitter update
• Announcement to the user mailing list

Issue Links

• is a parent of: CASSANDRA-17281 Add hooks for the Javascript UDF to enable people to plugin their own implementations of scripted UDFs