Hi Fokko, Is there any alternative to Elephantbird? Since it is only used in the test, could we rewrite those test cases using the alternative if any? The effort may be huge though.
Best, Gang On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 5:03 PM Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was in the process of updating to the latest version of Thrift > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/pull/1138> (from 0.16.0 to 0.19.0). > Mostly because it contains CVEs and makes the release process easier > because you don't have to install Thrift from source (it is just available > on homebrew etc). > > While working on this, I ran into an issue with Elephantbird, which is > using a very old version of Thrift (0.7.0). Trying to bump this I noticed > that a lot of classes that we use in the tests have > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/pull/1156> been made private > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/pull/1156>. Therefore it is hard to > test if we break anything. > > It looks like parquet-thrift is not used by anyone anymore > <https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.parquet/parquet-thrift>. I > would suggest removing the module from the repository > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/pull/1158> unless anyone objects. > > Kind regards, Fokko >
