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Joseph Lynch edited comment on CASSANDRA-14303 at 11/27/18 12:06 AM:
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Ok I rebased and merged in your offline suggestion to re-use 
{{replication_factor}} as well as updating it to (I believe) support transient 
replication. I've made sure to update the documentation as well indicating the 
change in behavior.

An interesting side effect of re-using {{replication_factor}} is now we can do 
cool things like altering a {{SimpleStrategy}} directly to a 
{{NetworkTopologyStrategy}} while using the old RF, e.g. this now does the 
right thing:
{noformat}
CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 
'replication_factor': 3};
 CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy'}
{noformat}
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Dtests are running in the linked circleci. When you're happy please let me know 
and I will add the CHANGES/NEWS entries.


was (Author: jolynch):
Ok I rebased and merged in your offline suggestion to re-use 
{{replication_factor}} as well as updating it to (I believe) support transient 
replication. I've made sure to update the documentation as well indicating the 
change in behavior.

An interesting side effect of re-using {{replication_factor}} is now we can do 
cool things like altering a {{SimpleStrategy}} directly to a 
{{NetworkTopologyStrategy}} while using the old RF, e.g. this now does the 
right thing:
{noformat}
CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 
'replication_factor': 3};
 CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 
'replication_factor': 3};
{noformat}
||trunk||
|[96c8d6df|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/96c8d6df9082ac47b6aca655425a8522ae9459ff]|
|[!https://circleci.com/gh/jolynch/cassandra/tree/CASSANDRA-14303.png?circle-token=
 
1102a59698d04899ec971dd36e925928f7b521f5!|https://circleci.com/gh/jolynch/cassandra/tree/CASSANDRA-14303]|

Dtests are running in the linked circleci. When you're happy please let me know 
and I will add the CHANGES/NEWS entries.

> Default datacenter replication for NetworkTopologyStrategy
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-14303
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14303
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Configuration
>            Reporter: Joseph Lynch
>            Assignee: Joseph Lynch
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: 4.0-feature-freeze-review-requested
>             Fix For: 4.x
>
>
> Right now when creating a keyspace with {{NetworkTopologyStrategy}} the user 
> has to manually specify the datacenters they want their data replicated to 
> with parameters, e.g.:
> {noformat}
>  CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 
> 'dc1': 3, 'dc2': 3}{noformat}
> This is a poor user interface because it requires the creator of the keyspace 
> (typically a developer) to know the layout of the Cassandra cluster (which 
> may or may not be controlled by them). Also, at least in my experience, folks 
> typo the datacenters _all_ the time. To work around this I see a number of 
> users creating automation around this where the automation describes the 
> Cassandra cluster and automatically expands out to all the dcs that Cassandra 
> knows about. Why can't Cassandra just do this for us, re-using the previously 
> forbidden {{replication_factor}} option (for backwards compatibility):
> {noformat}
>  CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 
> 'replication_factor': 3}{noformat}
> This would automatically replicate this Keyspace to all datacenters that are 
> present in the cluster. If you need to _override_ the default you could 
> supply a datacenter name, e.g.:
> {noformat}
> > CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 
> > 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'replication_factor': 3, 'dc1': 2}
> > DESCRIBE KEYSPACE test
> CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 
> 'dc1': '2', 'dc2': 3} AND durable_writes = true;
> {noformat}
> On the implementation side I think this may be reasonably straightforward to 
> do an auto-expansion at the time of keyspace creation (or alter), where the 
> above would automatically expand to list out the datacenters. We could allow 
> this to be recomputed whenever an AlterKeyspaceStatement runs so that to add 
> datacenters you would just run:
> {noformat}
> ALTER KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 
> 'replication_factor': 3}{noformat}
> and this would check that if the dc's in the current schema are different you 
> add in the new ones (_for safety reasons we'd never remove non explicitly 
> supplied zero dcs when auto-generating dcs_). Removing a datacenter becomes 
> an alter that includes an override for the dc you want to remove (or of 
> course you can always not use the auto-expansion and just use the old way):
> {noformat}
> // Tell it explicitly not to replicate to dc2
> > ALTER KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 
> > 'replication_factor': 3, 'dc2': 0}
> > DESCRIBE KEYSPACE test
> CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 
> 'dc1': '3'} AND durable_writes = true;{noformat}



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