[CASSANDRA-17445] Library airlift/airline has been deprecated

• Type: Task
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 5.x
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Maxim Muzafarov
• Reporter: Tibor Repasi

Authors

Maxim Muzafarov

Reviewers

Caleb Rackliffe

• Created: 16/Mar/22 11:34
• Updated: 05/Nov/24 11:30

Description

The airlift/airline library has been deprecated and is not maintained since 8 Jun 2021. It is used in many tools and some tests of Cassandra which should be reviewed.

Tools using that library:

• org.apache.cassandra.tools.JMXTool
• org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeTool
• org.apache.cassandra.stress.Compaction
• org.apache.cassandra.fqltool.FullQueryLogTool

Tests using it:

• org.apache.cassandra.simulator.SimulationRunner

Alternatives (as suggested in the depreciation notice):

• Airline 2
• picocli

Issue Links

• Is contained by: CASSANDRA-19476 CQL Management API
• links to: dev-list: [DISCUSS] Feature branch to update a nodetool obsolete dependency (airline)
• links to: dev-list: [DISCUSS] Replace airlift/airline library with Picocli
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2497