API Version Upgrade Guide

Overview

This document provides an overview of changes that an application developer may need to make or effects that they should consider when upgrading the API version in their code. For each version, a list is provided that details the relevant changes when upgrading to that version from a prior version. To upgrade across multiple versions, make sure you apply changes from each version starting after your start version up to and including your target version.

For more details about API versions, see API versions.

API version 720

General

Special keys \xff\xff/management/profiling/<client_txn_sample_rate|client_txn_size_limit> are removed in 7.2 and the functionalities they provide are now covered by the global configuration module.

API version 710

General

fdb_transaction_get_range_and_flat_map API is replaced by fdb_transaction_get_mapped_range in version 710. The function fdb_transaction_get_range_and_flat_map is not supported in any API version.

API version 700

General

Committing a transaction will no longer partially reset it. In particular, getting the read version from a transaction that has committed or failed to commit with an error will return the original read version.

Python bindings

The function get_estimated_range_size_bytes will now throw an error if the begin_key or end_key is None.

API version 630

General

In previous api versions, a get range starting at \xff\xff/worker_interfaces ignored its arguments and returned keys outside the range requested. In api version 630, you can get similar behavior by reading from \xff\xff/worker_interfaces/ to \xff\xff/worker_interfaces0 and stripping the prefix \xff\xff/worker_interfaces/ from each key in the result.
The get_addresses_for_key function now returns strings that include the port in the address. Prior to API version 630, this required using the INCLUDE_PORT_IN_ADDRESS option, which has now been deprecated.
The ENABLE_SLOW_TASK_PROFILING network option has been replaced by ENABLE_RUN_LOOP_PROFILING and is now deprecated.

C bindings

The FDBKeyValue struct’s key and value members have changed type from void* to uint8_t*.

Python bindings

@fdb.transactional decorated functions will now throw an error if they return a generator. Previously, it was very easy to write these generators in a way that resulted them committing or retrying earlier than intended.

API version 620

C bindings

fdb_future_get_version has been renamed to fdb_future_get_int64.

API version 610

General

The concept of opening a cluster has been removed from the API. Instead, databases are opened directly. See binding specific notes for the details as they apply to your language binding.
The TIMEOUT, MAX_RETRY_DELAY, and RETRY_LIMIT transaction options are no longer reset by calls to onError.
Calling onError with a non-retryable error will now put a transaction into an error state. Previously, this would partially reset the transaction.
The TRANSACTION_LOGGING_ENABLE option has been deprecated. Its behavior can be replicated by setting the DEBUG_TRANSACTION_IDENTIFIER and LOG_TRANSACTION options.

C bindings

Creating a database is now done by calling fdb_create_database, which is a synchronous operation.
The FDBCluster type has been eliminated and the following functions have been removed: fdb_create_cluster, fdb_cluster_create_database, fdb_cluster_set_option, fdb_cluster_destroy, fdb_future_get_cluster, and fdb_future_get_database.

Python bindings

fdb.open no longer accepts a database_name parameter.
Removed fdb.init, fdb.create_cluster, and fdb.Cluster. fdb.open should be used instead.

Java bindings

FDB.createCluster and the Cluster class have been deprecated. FDB.open should be used instead.

Ruby bindings

FDB.open no longer accepts a database_name parameter.
Removed FDB.init, FDB.create_cluster, and FDB.Cluster. FDB.open should be used instead.

Go bindings

Added fdb.OpenDatabase and fdb.MustOpenDatabase to open a connection to the database by specifying a cluster file.
Deprecated fdb.StartNetwork, fdb.Open, fdb.MustOpen, and fdb.CreateCluster. fdb.OpenDatabase or fdb.OpenDefault should be used instead.

API version 600

General

The TLS_PLUGIN option is now a no-op and has been deprecated. TLS support is now included in the published binaries.

API version 520

General

The SET_VERSIONSTAMPED_KEY atomic operation now uses four bytes instead of two to specify the versionstamp offset.
The SET_VERSIONSTAMPED_VALUE atomic operation now requires a four byte versionstamp offset to be specified at the end of the value, similar to the behavior with SET_VERSIONSTAMPED_KEY.
The READ_AHEAD_DISABLE option has been deprecated.

Java and Python bindings

Tuples packed with versionstamps will be encoded with four byte offsets instead of two.

API version 510

General

The atomic operations AND and MIN have changed behavior when used on a key that isn’t present in the database. Previously, these operations would set an unset key to a value of equal length with the specified value but containing all null bytes (0x00). Now, an unset key will be set with the value passed to the operation (equivalent to a set).

Java bindings

Note: the Java bindings as of 5.1 no longer support API versions older that 510.
The Java bindings have moved packages from com.apple.cie.foundationdb to com.apple.foundationdb.
The version of the Java bindings using our custom futures library has been deprecated and is no longer being maintained. The Java bindings using CompletableFuture are the only ones that remain.
Finalizers now log a warning to stderr if an object with native resources is not closed. This can be disabled by calling FDB.setUnclosedWarning().
Implementers of the Disposable interface now implement AutoCloseable instead, with close() replacing dispose().
AutoCloseable objects will continue to be closed in object finalizers, but this behavior is being deprecated. All AutoCloseable objects should be explicitly closed.
AsyncIterator is no longer closeable.
getBoundaryKeys() now returns a CloseableAsyncIterable rather than an AsyncIterator.