[CASSANDRA-2107] MessageDigests are created in several places, centralize the creation and error handling

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.3
• Assignee: Matthew F. Dennis
• Reporter: Matthew F. Dennis

Authors

Matthew F. Dennis

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 04/Feb/11 00:14
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 18/Feb/11 22:24

Description

MessageDigest.getInstance("SomeAlg") throws NoSuchAlgorithm exception (a checked exception). This is annoying as it causes everyone that uses standard algs like MD5 to surround their code in try/catch. We should concentrate the creation in one method that doesn't raise an exception (i.e. catches NoSuchAlgorithm and raises a RuntimeException) just to clean the code up a little.