The replication factor passed to NetworkTopologyStrategy (which we call
by the confusing name "auto expand") may or may not be used (see
explanation why in #8881), but regardless, we should validate that it's
a legal number and not some non-numeric junk, and we should report the error.
Before this patch, the two commands
CREATE KEYSPACE name WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 1 }
ALTER KEYSPACE name WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 'foo' }
succeed despite the invalid replication factor "foo". After this patch,
the second command fails.
The problem fixed here is reproduced by the existing test
test_keyspace.py::test_alter_keyspace_invalid when switching it to use
NetworkTopologyStrategy, as suggested by issue #8638.
Fixes#8880
Refs #8881
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20210620100442.194610-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
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