We now test compatibility with Apache Cassandra's duration type (introduced with Apache Cassandra 3.10). Duration requires a driver version >= 3.2.0 so we drop build profiles against earlier driver versions and use Apache Cassandra 3.10 for integration tests.
Enforce frozen user types in collection types when creating tables and frozen user types when referencing a user type from another type. Previously, the driver returned frozen user-types and no interaction from our side was required. Move user-type specifics to UserTypeUtil.
Introduce compatibility code within the tests to build against different driver versions.
Reuse Thread pools during integration test runs to not recreate and dispose Threads multiple times. Increase build and Cassandra memory. Use an external Cassandra instance for TravisCI build jobs.
Align documentation structure with other Spring Data Modules. Add chapters for mapping and supported data types. Add new features chapter. Merge existing documentation into the aligned structure. Add John Blum and Mark Paluch to pom.xml.
We are now compatible with Datastax’ Cassandra Driver 3.1.1 and support the newly introduced configuration options MaxQueueSize for PoolingOptions.
This change also removes test assertions for PoolTimeoutMillis as this option was deprecated and made unusable with 3.1.1.
Remove the previously added netty dependency exclusion in 237ac88 to include netty as transient dependency. Netty was excluded because of a dependency conflict between cassandra-driver-dse and cassandra-all. The conflict gets visible during build-time on CI hosts with symptoms of 100% CPU usage or network timeouts.
We now use cassandra-all 3.7 and cassandra-driver-core 3.1.0 which both require netty 4.0.37.Final.
Related pull request: #43.
