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Robert Stupp commented on CASSANDRA-8241:
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bq. scope of the problem
IMO people are used to rely on Java language's boxing and implicit casts and it
would cause (just) usability issues when these features are not there.
For example the "stupid" {{sin}} function is easier to read with boxing.
{code:title=javac/ecj}
return input != null ? Math.sin(input) : null;
{code}
{code:title=javassist}
return input != null ? Double.valueOf(Math.sin(input.doubleValue())) : null;
{code}
Complexity increases with the number of arguments and when
UDTs/tuples/collections are possible.
In addition we could easily allow new Java 8 language features (e.g. lambdas
and streaming) within UDFs (currently restricted to Java 7) - could for example
simplify source code working on collections passed to UDFs.
bq. some other place where we use it?
I could imagine to use user-provided code for triggers. But current trigger
implementation works at a "lower level" - so (I guess) that would be a
re-implementation of triggers on CQL3 level.
Maybe custom 2i providers could also use user-provided source code - but since
these usually require custom libs, it does not feel suitable.
> Use javac instead of javassist
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-8241
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8241
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Robert Stupp
> Assignee: Robert Stupp
> Labels: udf
> Fix For: 3.0
>
> Attachments: 8241-ecj.txt, udf-java-javac.txt
>
>
> Using JDK's built-in Java-Compiler API has some advantages over javassist.
> Although compilation feels a bit slower, Java compiler API has some
> advantages:
> * boxing + unboxing works
> * generics work
> * compiler error messages are better (or at least known) and have line/column
> numbers
> The implementation does not use any temp files. Everything's in memory.
> Patch attached to this issue.
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