[FLINK-30274] Upgrade commons-collections 3.x to commons-collections4

• Type: Technical Debt
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.16.0
• Component/s: Build System
• Labels: pull-request-available stale-assigned
• Assignee: Ran Tao
• Reporter: Ran Tao
• Created: 02/Dec/22 08:44
• Updated: 14/Aug/23 10:35

Description

First, Apache commons-collections 3.x is a Java 1.3 compatible version, and it does not use Java 5 generics. Apache commons-collections4 4.4 is an upgraded version of commons-collections and it built by Java 8.

The Apache Spark has same issue: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/35257

Issue Links

• Blocked: FLINK-32522 Kafka connector should depend on commons-collections instead of inherit from flink
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #37
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #21442