[CASSANDRA-18099] Use checked casts when reading vints as ints

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0-alpha1, 5.0
• Component/s: Messaging/Client, Messaging/Internode, Messaging/Thrift
• Change Category: Quality Assurance
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/2043

Test and Documentation Plan

Existing tests cover this change extensively

• Assignee: Ariel Weisberg
• Reporter: Ariel Weisberg

Authors

Ariel Weisberg

Reviewers

Caleb Rackliffe, David Capwell

• Created: 06/Dec/22 20:19
• Updated: 12/Sep/23 13:03
• Resolved: 04/Jan/23 21:02

Description

Add some safety and a new convenience method to make clear that getting an int can be done using a checked method. No need to import a separate class.