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> On Jan 18, 2022, at 8:38 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +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
