[CASSANDRA-782] Create a cleanup utility that cleans all data directories

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6
• Assignee: Ran Tavory
• Reporter: Ran Tavory

Authors

Ran Tavory

• Created: 09/Feb/10 12:28
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 12/Feb/10 18:26

Description

A cleanup utility is useful for tests, unit tests of products that use cassandra as a blackbox.
A cleanup utility may be used in conjunction with an embedded cassandra service (see CASSANDRA-740) in the following way:

1. Test starts by creating the data directories, if they don't exist, and deleting all content in them to make sure there's a fresh clean start (all this provided by this improvement)
2. Test starts an embedded cassandra service (provided by CASSANDRA-740).
3. Test runs... adds data to cassandra, reads, deletes etc.
4. Test stops the embedded cassandra service
5. Test cleans up all data to leave the file system clean.