From 90f231ad564cb47b07a5b6e80a3da28f6e693f3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yifan Cai <ycai@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:57:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed incorrect error message constant for keyspace name
 length validation

patch by Yifan Cai; reviewed by Maxwell Guo, Stefan Miklosovic for CASSANDRA-20915
---
 CHANGES.txt                                   |  1 +
 .../cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadata.java    |  3 +-
 .../schema/KeyspaceMetadataTest.java          | 45 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadataTest.java

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 93b8cdc0f4..57e633f2a4 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 4.0.19
+ * Fixed incorrect error message constant for keyspace name length validation (CASSANDRA-20915)
  * update shaded cassandra-driver-core to 3.11.5 (CASSANDRA-20904)
  * Prevent too long table names not fitting file names (CASSANDRA-20389)
  * Fix IndexOutOfBoundsException in sstablemetadata tool when a range tombstone is a max clustering value (CASSANDRA-20855)
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadata.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadata.java
index e8a033b7a2..ad9d7579ac 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadata.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadata.java
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ import org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService;
 import static java.lang.String.format;
 
 import static com.google.common.collect.Iterables.any;
-import static org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaConstants.TABLE_NAME_LENGTH;
 
 /**
  * An immutable representation of keyspace metadata (name, params, tables, types, and functions).
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ public final class KeyspaceMetadata implements SchemaElement
                                                 keyspaceName));
         if (keyspaceName.length() > SchemaConstants.NAME_LENGTH)
             throw exceptionBuilder.apply(format("Keyspace name must not be more than %d characters long (got %d characters for \"%s\")",
-                                                TABLE_NAME_LENGTH, keyspaceName.length(), keyspaceName));
+                                                SchemaConstants.NAME_LENGTH, keyspaceName.length(), keyspaceName));
     }
 
     public enum Kind
diff --git a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadataTest.java b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadataTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4cf14fbf18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/schema/KeyspaceMetadataTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
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+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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+ *
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+ */
+package org.apache.cassandra.schema;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
+
+public class KeyspaceMetadataTest
+{
+    @Test
+    public void testValidateKeyspaceNameTooLongShowsCorrectLimit()
+    {
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        for (int i = 0; i < SchemaConstants.NAME_LENGTH + 1; i++)
+            sb.append('a');
+
+        String longKeyspaceName = sb.toString();
+        String expectedMessage = String.format("Keyspace name must not be more than %d characters long (got %d characters for \"%s\")",
+                                               SchemaConstants.NAME_LENGTH,
+                                               longKeyspaceName.length(),
+                                               longKeyspaceName);
+
+        assertThatThrownBy(() -> KeyspaceMetadata.validateKeyspaceName(longKeyspaceName, ConfigurationException::new))
+        .isInstanceOf(ConfigurationException.class)
+        .hasMessage(expectedMessage);
+    }
+}