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In commit 44a1daf we added the ability to read Scylla system tables with Alternator. This feature is useful, among other things, in tests that want to read Scylla's configuration through the system table system.config. But tests often want to modify system.config, e.g., to temporarily reduce some threshold to make tests shorter. Until now, this was not possible
This series add supports for writing to system tables through Alternator, and examples of tests using this capability (and utility functions to make it easy).
Because the ability to write to system tables may have non-obvious security consequences, it is turned off by default and needs to be enabled with a new configuration option "alternator_allow_system_table_write"
No backports are necessary - this feature is only intended for tests. We may later decide to backport if we want to backport new tests, but I think the probability we'll want to do this is low.
Fixes #12348
Closes scylladb/scylladb#19147
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/alternator: utility functions for changing configuration
alternator: add optional support for writing to system table
test/alternator: reduce duplicated code
Scylla in-source tests.
For details on how to run the tests, see docs/dev/testing.md
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
If you can use an existing folder, consider adding your test to it. New folders should be used for new large categories/subsystems, or when the test environment is significantly different from some existing suite, e.g. you plan to start scylladb with different configuration, and you intend to add many tests and would like them to reuse an existing Scylla cluster (clusters can be reused for tests within the same folder).
To add a new folder, create a new directory, and then
copy & edit its suite.ini.