[CASSANDRA-17887] Further updates needed post CASSANDRA-12883 - removal of non-JavaScript scripted UDFs

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Documentation, Feature/UDF
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Benjamin Lerer
• Reporter: Ekaterina Dimitrova

Authors

Benjamin Lerer

• Created: 13/Sep/22 00:18
• Updated: 12/Jan/23 21:58

Description

Non-JavaScript scripted UDFs were removed as part of CASSANDRA-12883 but several updates were missed which makes it confusing for users. To name a few I found so far:

• cassandra.yaml  -  Enable this option to be able to use UDFs with "language javascript" or any custom JSR-223 provider.
• docs functions page   "Support for other JSR 223 compliant scripting languages, such as Python, Ruby, and Scala, is possible by adding a JAR to the classpath."

I suspect we also need to update bin/cassandra.in.sh which still tries to collect all JSR223 engines' jars in trunk

Issue Links

• Discovered while testing: CASSANDRA-17281 Add hooks for the Javascript UDF to enable people to plugin their own implementations of scripted UDFs
• is a child of: CASSANDRA-12883 Remove support for non-JavaScript UDFs
• is related to: CASSANDRA-16895 Build with Java 17