[CASSANDRA-8785] Check for alternative of json-simple library

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0 beta 1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Stupp
• Created: 11/Feb/15 14:56
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 11/Feb/15 15:12

Description

The JSON library used in C* (json-simple 1.1) is quite aged: 1.1 is dated 08/2009 and the newest version 1.1.1 is dated 03/2012.

That library uses very old Java APIs (e.g. StringBuffer) and has no streaming API. Especially the streaming API should improve json2sstable and sstable2json tools.

On this page is some JSON parser performance comparison.
IMO Jackson feels like a nice alternative.

/cc iamaleksey v3.0 ok?