Cassandra Journal Class

alan.brewster73 · April 28, 2020, 10:26am

Hello,

When I start the shard in a docker environment, I get the following error when I invoke a persistent actor.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Plugin class name must be defined in config property [cassandra-journal.class]

I do have the following config, which works well in a standalone SBT environment.

  persistence {
    journal.plugin = "cassandra-journal"
    snapshot-store.plugin = "cassandra-snapshot-store"
    cassandra {
      journal {
        class = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal.CassandraJournal"
        keyspace-autocreate = true
        tables-autocreate = true
      }
    }
  }

Kind regards

alan.brewster73 · April 28, 2020, 11:51am

I have managed to get over the error. However, in docker it is still not able to resolve the contact point. It seems to be using the default value, even though in docker compose I am providing the internal address.

akka {

  loglevel = INFO

  remote {
    artery {
      canonical.hostname = ${clustering.ip}
      canonical.port = ${clustering.port}
      enabled = on
      transport = tcp
    }
  }

  actor {
    provider = "cluster"
    serialization-bindings {
      "com.example.CborSerializable" = jackson-json
    }
  }

  cluster {
    roles=["sharded", "docker"]
    sharding {
      number-of-shards = 30
      passivate-idle-entity-after = 2 minutes
      role = "sharded"
    }
    seed-nodes = [
      "akka://"${clustering.cluster.name}"@"${clustering.seed-ip}":"${clustering.seed-port}
    ]
    shutdown-after-unsuccessful-join-seed-nodes = 40s
  }

  coordinated-shutdown.exit-jvm = on

  persistence {
    journal.plugin = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal"
    snapshot-store.plugin = "akka.persistence.snapshot-store.local"
    snapshot-store.local.dir = "target/snapshot"
    cassandra {
      journal {
        class = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal.CassandraJournal"
        keyspace-autocreate = true
        tables-autocreate = true
        contact-points = [${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}]
        port = 9092
      }
    }
  }

  datastax-java-driver {
    basic.contact-points = [${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}]
  }

}

clustering {
  ip = "127.0.0.1"
  ip = ${?CLUSTER_IP}
  port = 1600
  defaultPort = 0
  seed-ip = "127.0.0.1"
  seed-ip = ${?CLUSTER_IP}
  seed-ip = ${?SEED_PORT_1600_TCP_ADDR}
  seed-port = 1600
  seed-port = ${?SEED_PORT_1600_TCP_PORT}
  cluster.name = ShoppingCart
  cassandra.contactpoint1 = ${?CASSANDRA_CONTACT_POINT1}
}

cassandra-journal {
  contact-points = [${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}]
}

cassandra-snapshot-store {
  contact-points = [${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}]
}

datastax-java-driver {
  basic.contact-points = [${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}]
}

alan.brewster73 · April 29, 2020, 1:27am

There seems to be incompatibility between the Cassandra plugin versions. The configuration below gives the error java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Plugin class name must be defined in config property [cassandra-journal.class] with 1.0.0-RC2, however works fine with 0.102. Any pointers will be highly appreciated. Kind regards

include "cluster-application-base.conf"

akka {
  remote {
    artery {
      canonical.hostname = ${clustering.ip}
      canonical.port = ${clustering.port}
    }
  }

  cluster {
    roles=["sharded", "docker"]
    seed-nodes = [
      "akka://"${clustering.cluster.name}"@"${clustering.seed-ip}":"${clustering.seed-port}
    ]
    shutdown-after-unsuccessful-join-seed-nodes = 40s
  }

  coordinated-shutdown.exit-jvm = on

  persistence {
    journal.plugin = "cassandra-journal"
    snapshot-store.plugin = "cassandra-snapshot-store"
  }

}

clustering {
  ip = "127.0.0.1"
  ip = ${?CLUSTER_IP}
  port = 1600
  defaultPort = 0

  seed-ip = "127.0.0.1"
  seed-ip = ${?CLUSTER_IP}
  seed-ip = ${?SEED_PORT_1600_TCP_ADDR}
  seed-port = 1600
  seed-port = ${?SEED_PORT_1600_TCP_PORT}
  cluster.name = ArtifactStateCluster
  cassandra.contactpoint1 = ${?CASSANDRA_CONTACT_POINT1}
}

cassandra-journal {
  contact-points = [${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}]
}
cassandra-snapshot-store {
  contact-points = [${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}]
}

The is cluster-application-base.conf

akka {
  loglevel = INFO

  actor {
    provider = "cluster"
    serialization-bindings {
      "com.example.CborSerializable" = jackson-json
    }
  }

  remote {
    artery {
      enabled = on
      transport = tcp
    }
  }

  cluster {
    roles=["sharded"]
    sharding {
      number-of-shards = 30
      passivate-idle-entity-after = 2 minutes
      role = "sharded"
    }
  }
}

clustering {
  cluster.name = ShoppingCart
}

alan.brewster73 · April 29, 2020, 7:33am

I seem to be stuck with the latest version of the Cassandra plugin. When I add the journal class, it complains about missing session-provider. Even after adding session-provider, I get the same error. Unfortunately the documentation seems to be a bit inadequate. After struggling on this for a few days now, I have just gone back to a quite earlier version, with no real view on how to upgrade.

  persistence {
    journal.plugin = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal"
    cassandra {
      session-provider = "akka.stream.alpakka.cassandra.DefaultSessionProvider"
      journal {
        class = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal.CassandraJournal"
      }
    }
  }

Caused by: com.typesafe.config.ConfigException$Missing: merge of cluster-application-docker.conf @ jar:file:/opt/docker/lib/com.example.shopping-cart-0.1.0.jar!/cluster-application-docker.conf: 25,reference.conf @ jar:file:/opt/docker/lib/com.typesafe.akka.akka-persistence_2.13-2.6.4.jar!/reference.conf: 96: No configuration setting found for key ‘session-provider’

alan.brewster73 · April 29, 2020, 7:44am

I added the session-provider inside the journal entry as below, now I get a class not found exception for the specified class. 1.0RC2 seem to be out of sync with what is documented here.

https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-persistence-cassandra/current/configuration.html

  persistence {
    journal.plugin = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal"
    cassandra {
      session-provider = "akka.stream.alpakka.cassandra.DefaultSessionProvider"
      journal {
      session-provider = "akka.stream.alpakka.cassandra.DefaultSessionProvider"
        class = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal.CassandraJournal"
      }
    }
  }

It will be very helpful if someone could please point me to something which I am obviously doing wrong.

alan.brewster73 · April 29, 2020, 7:58am

Bit more progress. It doesn’t seem to be picking up the datastax driver configuration, and trying to default to localhost.

include "cluster-application-base.conf"

akka {
  remote {
    artery {
      canonical.hostname = ${clustering.ip}
      canonical.port = ${clustering.port}
    }
  }

  cluster {
    roles=["sharded", "docker"]
    seed-nodes = [
      "akka://"${clustering.cluster.name}"@"${clustering.seed-ip}":"${clustering.seed-port}
    ]
    shutdown-after-unsuccessful-join-seed-nodes = 40s
  }

  coordinated-shutdown.exit-jvm = on

  persistence {
    journal.plugin = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal"
    cassandra {
      datastax-java-driver-config = "datastax-java-driver"
      journal {
        class = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal.CassandraJournal"
      }
    }
  }

}

clustering {
  ip = "127.0.0.1"
  ip = ${?CLUSTER_IP}
  port = 1600
  defaultPort = 0

  seed-ip = "127.0.0.1"
  seed-ip = ${?CLUSTER_IP}
  seed-ip = ${?SEED_PORT_1600_TCP_ADDR}
  seed-port = 1600
  seed-port = ${?SEED_PORT_1600_TCP_PORT}
  cluster.name = ArtifactStateCluster
  cassandra.contactpoint1 = ${?CASSANDRA_CONTACT_POINT1}
}

datastax-java-driver {
  basic.contact-points = [${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}]
}

Frank · April 29, 2020, 4:17pm

Hi guys, not sure if this could help but I managed to get my data into cassandra.
I digged into the source code and my dependencies and found my missing classes in the persistence-cassandra-1.0.0-RC2+3xxx package.

My config so far looks like this:

akka.persistence {
    journal.plugin = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal"
    snapshot-store.plugin = "akka.persistence.cassandra.snapshot"

    cassandra {
      datastax-java-driver-config = "datastax-java-driver"
      journal {
        class = "akka.persistence.cassandra.journal.CassandraJournal"
        keyspace-autocreate = true
        tables-autocreate = true
      }
      snapshot {
        class = "akka.persistence.cassandra.snapshot.CassandraSnapshotStore"
        keyspace-autocreate = true
        tables-autocreate = true
      }
    }
  }

alan.brewster73 · April 29, 2020, 5:42pm

Frank,

Are you able to get the data into Cassandra running on a contact point other than localhost:9092?

Regards

Frank · April 30, 2020, 7:33am

Alan,
I didn’t tried that …

From the datastax reference page maybe this could be an option to try out:
https://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/java-driver/4.6/manual/core/configuration/#quick-overview

For array options, provide each element separately by appending an index to the path:

-Ddatastax-java-driver.basic.contact-points.0="127.0.0.1:9042"
-Ddatastax-java-driver.basic.contact-points.1="127.0.0.2:9042"

like in your example:

datastax-java-driver {
  basic.contact-points.0 = ${clustering.cassandra.contactpoint1}
  ...
}

or try out the -D command line option first to overwrite the config to see if this would work out.

Cheers

alan.brewster73 · April 30, 2020, 7:56am

Thank you, yes I believe I have done the same and I have got it working.

Kind regards

Frank · April 30, 2020, 8:21am

Hi Alan,

maybe I found a possible solution configuration to try out:

  datastax-java-driver {
//    basic.contact-points.0 = "127.0.0.1:9042"
    basic.contact-points = ["127.0.0.1:9042"]
    basic.load-balancing-policy {
      class = DefaultLoadBalancingPolicy
      local-datacenter = datacenter1
    }
  }

of course you need to adapt this to your needs - I took the config from the datastax reference page and added the local-datacenter setting because the driver was complaining about this missing config. After I added the local-datacenter with the suggested datacenter it worked.

Cheers
Frank

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