[CASSANDRA-18992] Exclude jna transitive dependecy from the ohc library

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0-beta1, 5.1
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/072a13e5efbcfecde792710708b557a5e45c50fe

Test and Documentation Plan

Documentation is not required, need to run CI to be sure that the solution works.

• Assignee: Maxim Muzafarov
• Reporter: Maxim Muzafarov

Authors

Maxim Muzafarov

Reviewers

Ariel Weisberg, Ekaterina Dimitrova, Stefan Miklosovic

• Created: 01/Nov/23 20:25
• Updated: 15/Nov/23 09:15
• Resolved: 15/Nov/23 09:15

Description

The concern is related to the JNA dependency on the ohc library. We are now using version 0.5.1 of the ohc library in Cassandra. The ohc 0.5.1 depends on version 4.1.0 of the net.java.dev.jna . For the Cassandra project, JNA has been updated since the 4.0 release version up to JNA 5.6.0 in CASSANDRA-16212 to support running nodes on the arm64 architecture, so I assume that JNA 4.1.0 is no longer in Casssandra's classpath.

The common practice in the Cassandra project is to exclude these kinds of transitive dependencies when they are explicitly mentioned in the main parent pom, since Ant may resolve them incorrectly. See comment:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14667?focusedCommentId=17765091&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-17765091

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-18799 Update org.caffinitas.ohc:ohc-core dependency and remove org.caffinitas.ohc:ohc-core-j8
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2854
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2855