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Nadav Har'El aa34f0b875 alternator: fix CDC events for TTL expiration
In commit a3ec6c7d1d we supposedly
implemented the feature of telling TTL experation events from regular
user-sent deletions. However, that implementation did not actually work
at all... It had two bugs:

 1. It created an null rjson::value() instead of an empty dictionary
    rjson::empty_object(), so GetRecords failed every time such a
    TTL expiration event was generated.
 2. In the output, it used lowercase field names "type" and "principalId"
    instead of the uppercase "Type" and "PrincipalId". This is not the
    correct capitalization, and when boto3 recieves such incorrect
    fields it silently deletes them and never passes them to the user's
    get_records() call.

This patch fixes those two bugs, and importantly - enables a test for
this feature. We did already have such a test but it was marked as
"veryslow" so doesn't run in CI and apparently not even run once to
check the new feature. This test is not actually very long on Alternator
when the TTL period is set very low (as we do in our tests), so I replaced
the "veryslow" marker by "waits_for_expiration". The latter marker means
that the test is still very slow - as much as half an hour - on DynamoDB -
but runs quickly on Scylla in our test setup, and enabled in CI by
default.

The enabled test failed badly before this patch (a server error during
GetRecords), and passes with this patch.

Also, the aforementioned commit forgot to remove the paragraph in
Alternator's compatibility.md that claims we don't have that feature yet.
So we do it now.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>

Closes scylladb/scylladb#26633
2025-10-29 17:08:20 +01:00
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Scylla in-source tests.

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Shared C++ utils, libraries are in lib/, for Python - pylib/

alternator - Python tests which connect to a single server and use the DynamoDB API unit, boost, raft - unit tests in C++ cqlpy - Python tests which connect to a single server and use CQL topology* - tests that set up clusters and add/remove nodes cql - approval tests that use CQL and pre-recorded output rest_api - tests for Scylla REST API Port 9000 scylla-gdb - tests for scylla-gdb.py helper script nodetool - tests for C++ implementation of nodetool

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