[THRIFT-5702] Support Java 8

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.18.0, 0.18.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
• Component/s: Java - Library
• Assignee: Fokko Driesprong
• Reporter: Fokko Driesprong
• Created: 14/Apr/23 09:05
• Updated: 02/Sep/23 11:53
• Resolved: 21/Jun/23 20:28

Description

Fokko commented on Apr 14

I think it makes sense to support Java 8 as well. It is still being supported until 2030, and it looks like we're not using any Java 11+ features.

Jimexist commented on Apr 14

we kind of removed this not long ago. is there a possibility that downstream projects migrate to java 11?

Fokko commented on Apr 14 •

@Jimexist Eventually all projects will migrate, but this isn't the case today. Parquet, Iceberg, and Hadoop are still very much on Java 8, and probably many more. There is no real downside in making it also Java 8 compatible since the codebase clearly does not use Java 11+ syntaxes (otherwise it wouldn't compile).

Issue Links

• is broken by: THRIFT-5644 Upgrade to Java 17 (latest LTS version) in build env and upgrade minimal Java version to 11
• is duplicated by: THRIFT-5729 Configure the compiler-plugin to produce Java 8 compatible code
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2785