There was some hope started in CASSANDRA-6881 - see some of the later comments: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6881
On 4 Jun 2014, at 04:04, Brian O'Neill <b...@alumni.brown.edu> wrote: > > Interesting proposition. We¹ve embedded Cassandra a few times, so I¹d be > interested in an approach that makes that easier. > > Is there a way to do it incrementally? Introduce the injection framework, > and convert a few classes (those required for startup), then slowly > convert the remainder? > > peanut gallery, > -brian > > --- > Brian O'Neill > Chief Technology Officer > > Health Market Science > The Science of Better Results > 2700 Horizon Drive € King of Prussia, PA € 19406 > M: 215.588.6024 € @boneill42 <http://www.twitter.com/boneill42> € > healthmarketscience.com > > This information transmitted in this email message is for the intended > recipient only and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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I >>> was surprised to see the usage of so many mutable/global state statics >>> all over the service package (basically global variables/singletons). >>> >>> While I understand it can be practical to work with singletons, and that >>> in any case I'm not sure multi-tenant Cassandra (as in two different >>> Cassandra instances within the same process) would make sense at all (or >>> even work considering there is some native access going on with JNA), I >>> find static state can easily lead to tangled 'spaghetti' code (accessing >>> the singletons from anywhere, even where one shouldn't), and in general >>> it ties the code to the VM instance, rather than to the class. >>> >>> I tried to find if it was an actual design choice, but from my >>> understanding this is more something inherited from the early Cassandra >>> times at Facebook. I just found this thread[1] pointing to issue >>> CASSANDRA-741 (slightly more limited scope) that was marked as WONTFIX >>> because no one took it (but still marked as open for contribution). The >>> current code conventions also don't mention the usage of singletons >>> except by stating: "Do not extract interfaces (or abstract classes) >>> unless you actually need multiple implementations of it" (switching to a >>> "service"-style design doesn't require passing interfaces but it's >>> highly encouraged to help testability). >>> >>> So, I'd like to try to make this refactoring happen and remove all (or >>> most) mutable static state. It would be an easy way in for me in >>> Cassandra's internals (maybe to contribute further). I think it would >>> help testing (ability to unit test components without going to the >>> storage for instance) and in general modernize the code. It would also >>> make hacking on Cassandra easier because people could pick different >>> pieces without pulling the whole thing. >>> >>> It would definitely break backwards compatibility with current Java code >>> that directly embeds Cassandra / uses it as a library, but I would keep >>> the same abstraction so the refactoring would be easy. In any case, >>> backwards compatibility can be broken by many more changes than just >>> refactoring, and once this is done it will be easier to deal with >>> backwards compatibility. >>> >>> Obviously all ".instance" fields would be gone, and I'd try to fix >>> potential cyclic class dependencies and generally make sure classes >>> dependencies form a direct acyclic graph with CassandraDaemon as its >>> root. The basic idea is to have each 'service' component require all its >>> service dependencies in their constructor (and keeping them as a final >>> field), rather than getting them via the global namespace (singleton >>> instances). >>> >>> If I had it my way, I'd probably use a dependency injection framework, >>> namely Dagger which is as far as I knpw the lightest Java DI framework >>> actively developed (jointly developed by Square and Google's Java team >>> responsible for Guice & Guava), which has a neat compile-time annotation >>> processor that detects missing dependencies early on. It works with both >>> Android and J2SE and is very fast, simple and light (65kB vs 710kB for >>> Guice). >>> >>> So, the question is: would you guys accept such a patch? I'd rather not >>> do the work if it has no chance of being merged upstream :). >>> >> >> This has come up before. Let's face it, removing the singletons is a >> tempting proposition. >> >> Several of us have been down the path of trying to do it. >> >> At the end of the day, here's what you'd end up with (absolutely best >> case): >> >> 1. Modifying just about every class, sometimes substantially. >> 2. A huge patch for someone else to review. >> 3. No performance gains, no bug fixes. In fact, since so many classes >> have >> to be changed, I'd say that the risk of introducing a bug/regression is >> fairly likely. >> 4. Complicated merges when bugs need to be fixed in older versions. >> 5. More modular and testable code. >> >> So far, the positive aspects of 5 have not been able to trump the >> challenges presented by 1, 2, 3, and 4. >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Gary. >> >> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> Simon >>> >>> >>> [1] >>> >>> >>> http://grokbase.com/t/cassandra/dev/107xr48hek/creating-two-instances-in- >>> code >>> > >
