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Add reconnection-policy

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Description

Background: in cassandra-driver, ReconnectionPolicy governs how long the driver waits before retrying a broken connection to a dead node in the background (ConstantReconnectionPolicy(delay), ExponentialReconnectionPolicy(base_delay, max_delay)). It is set once via Cluster(reconnection_policy=...).

Current usage in the test suite:

  • test/cluster/conftest.py:36,154 : ExponentialReconnectionPolicy(1.0, 4.0) is set.

Status upstream: scylla-rust-driver already has this — scylla/src/policies/reconnect.rs defines ReconnectPolicy/ReconnectPolicySession plus a built-in ExponentialReconnectPolicy, but it's marked unstable, gated behind #[cfg(all(scylla_unstable, feature = "unstable-reconnect-policy"))].

We will need to wait until reconnection policies become stable API in the rust driver and then expose them similarly as We did with other policies.

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Research direction

Start by reading scylla/src/policies/reconnect.rs and checking whether the reconnection-policy API has become stable and available without the unstable feature gates. Compare the intended public API with test/cluster/conftest.py:36,154 and the existing policy exposure patterns. Done means exposing the stable Rust reconnection policies through the driver once the upstream API is ready.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cassandra, rust
Domain
backend, databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
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Newbie friendliness
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