[CASSANDRA-6253] Refactor: remove CFDefinition

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1 beta1
• Component/s: Legacy/CQL
• Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
• Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne

Authors

Sylvain Lebresne

Reviewers

Aleksey Yeschenko

• Created: 28/Oct/13 11:58
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 01/Nov/13 09:54

Description

While writing CQL3 initially, we added CFDefinition to be a CQL3-friendly version of CFMetaData. However, a number of changes have it redundant. The infos of CFDefinition are now in CFMetaData in pretty much the same form and in particular CFDefinition.Name is now basically a copy of ColumnDefinition. This is not only useless, but it is confusing too: sometimes the CQL3 code uses ColumnDefinition because it has too, but more often it uses CFDefinition.Name and both use diferent vocabulary even though they are the exact same thing.

So this ticket propose to remove CFDefinition and CFDefinition.Name since they are not useful anymore and this clean things up.