A. Soroka created CASSANDRA-15005:
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             Summary: Configurable whilelist for UDFs
                 Key: CASSANDRA-15005
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15005
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: CQL/Interpreter
            Reporter: A. Soroka


I would like to use the UDF system to distribute some simple calculations on 
values. For some use cases, this would require access only to some Java API 
classes that aren't on the (hardcoded) whitelist (e.g. 
{{java.security.MessageDigest}}). In other cases, it would require access to a 
little non-C* library code, pre-distributed to nodes by out-of-band means.

As I understand the situation now, the whitelist for types UDFs can use is 
hardcoded in java in 
[UDFunction|[https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/functions/UDFunction.java#L99].]

This ticket, then, is a request for a facility that would allow that list to be 
extended via some kind of deployment-time configuration. I realize that serious 
security concerns immediately arise for this kind of functionality, but I hope 
that by restricting it (only used during startup, no exposing the whitelist for 
introspection, etc.) it could be quite practical.

I'd like very much to assist with this ticket if it is accepted. (I believe I 
have sufficient Java skill to do that, but no real familiarity with C*'s 
codebase, yet. :) )



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