+1 On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:34 AM C. Scott Andreas <sc...@paradoxica.net> wrote:
> I also (+1nb) support a proposal to deprecate JavaScript UDFs; to offer an > interface for those who would like to supply a UDF implementation; and to > extract/remove our current implementation. > > JDK17 support seems like a much higher priority than in-tree JS UDFs. > > — Scott > > On Jan 18, 2022, at 8:30 AM, Ekaterina Dimitrova <e.dimitr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > With the work to add Java 17 support for Cassandra, a new question around > the future of UDF was raised. The scripted UDF was using Nashorn which is > no longer packaged with the JDK. There are options to add new dependencies > to Graal JS for example but it seems people are not sure that it is worth > it. Please check the discussion on CASSANDRA-16895. > > The following suggestion was made by Marcus and supported by other PMC > members - "I think we should deprecate scripted UDFs now and drop them > from the next major, but possibly provide hooks for people to write their > own UDF "engines" and break out the current javascript implementation in to > its own repository (but not ship it with Cassandra)." > > As a result we decided to engage with our users and created a Twitter > survey. Results below: > > *We would love to understand how you use ApacheCassandra UDFs and UDAs.* > > *32 people responded as follows:* > > - *We do not use them - 75%* > - *We only use Java UDFs - 22%* > - *We only use JS UDFs - 0%* > - *We use Java and JS UDFs - 3%* > > We also received feedback on LinkedIN on the topic - > https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6886728406742970369?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6886728406742970369%2C6886793921020608512%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6886728406742970369%2C6887421509485248512%29 > > Thoughts? > > Best regards, > Ekaterina > > -- Jonathan Ellis co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
