I created CASSANDRA-13284 a few days ago with the intent of starting a discussion around the topic of breaking the CQL parser out into a separate project. I see a few benefits to doing it and was wondering what the folks here thought as well.
First off, the Java CQL parser would obviously continue to be the reference parser. I'd love to see other languages have CQL parsers as well, but the intent here isn't for the OSS C* team to be responsible for maintaining that. My vision here is simply the ability to have some high level CQLParser.parse(statement) call that returns the parse tree, nothing more. It would be nice to be able to leverage that parser in other projects such as IDEs, code gen tools, etc. It would be outstanding to be able to create the parser tests in such a way that they can be referenced by other parsers in other languages. Yay code reuse. It also has the benefit of making the codebase a little more modular and a bit easier to understand. Thoughts? Jon
