Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2021-01-19 Thread Johnny Miller
Alexandre - great news. I am looking forward to using it!! Regards, Johnny On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 18:51, Alexandre Dutra wrote: > Hi, > > For those not following the Java driver mailing list, I would like to > point out that we just released driver 4.10.0. > > My message to that mailing list

Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2021-01-19 Thread Alexandre Dutra
Hi, For those not following the Java driver mailing list, I would like to point out that we just released driver 4.10.0. My message to that mailing list has all the details: https://groups.google.com/a/lists.datastax.com/g/java-driver-user/c/CN2UBLoXLtY/m/JE6sqdF1DQAJ In short, as promised, in

Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2020-12-10 Thread Alexandre Dutra
Hi, To clarify, partly because of recent discussions in this mailing list, and partly because of constant demand from both the community and customers, we (DataStax) decided recently to re-introduce driver-level cross-dc failover and driver-level downgrading retries in driver 4, to be released in

Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2020-12-09 Thread Johnny Miller
If you haven’t seen it the failover to remote DCs is being added to 4.10 of the java driver ( https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/plugins/servlet/mobile?originPath=%2Fbrowse%2FJAVA-2899#issue/JAVA-2899 and https://github.com/datastax/java-driver/commit/f4f6da04fd7871eb0e42933fe368a1e4285c710c) and

Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2020-10-31 Thread Cédrick Lunven
I wrote this, it might help people. https://github.com/DataStax-Examples/java-cassandra-driver-from3x-to4x *Full disclosure I am NOT part of the driver team. *I was not particularly happy with new version either: required new parameter 'localDC', missing load balancing policy, new

Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2020-10-29 Thread Jonathan Koppenhofer
We actually feel the same where we have edge cases where downgrading CL was useful. We did end up writing this in application logic as our code was pretty well abstracted and centralized to do so. I will also agree the driver seems overly prescriptive now with limited ability to override. Good

Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2020-10-29 Thread DuyHai Doan
Just my 2 cents Because of the tremendous breaking changes in terms of API as well as public facing classes (QueryBuilder for ex) I have stopped the development of the Achilles framework. Migrating to the 4.x version would require almost the complete rewrite of the framework, an effort which I

Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2020-10-29 Thread Johnny Miller
Joshua - thanks for the update, I have found the ASF slack channel (#cassandra-cep-drivers-donation) and google doc ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e0SsZxjeTabzrMv99pCz9zIkkgWjUd4KL5Yp0GFzNnY/edit#). Will be watching it closely. In terms of the functional changes brought into the driver

Re: What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2020-10-29 Thread Joshua McKenzie
That's an immense amount of incredibly useful feedback Johnny. Thanks for taking the time and energy to write all this up. I work with some of the engineers who authored these changes in the driver and have brought this thread to their attention. The authors have offered the driver as a CEP

What does the community think of the DataStax 4.x Java driver changes?

2020-10-29 Thread Johnny Miller
Hi Everybody, We wanted to reach out to the community around the v4 changes in the DataStax Java driver and gauge people's opinions on some of the changes. DataStax have done a tremendous job over the years on the Cassandra drivers and contributing to this community. However, we are currently