CASSANDRA-20984-5.0: Fix java.lang.ClassCastException: Joining failure upon streaming incompatible versions (StreamingTest is work in progress)

[vivekkoya]

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Commit messages should follow the following format:

 java.lang.ClassCastException: Joining failure upon streaming incompatible versions 

On version mismatch and/or protocol incompatibility between the two communicating nodes, cassandra server does not handle the errors correctly. There is no proper error handling when ClassCastException occurs, since it is not consistently reproducible. 


patch by Vivekanand Koya; reviewed by Štefan Miklošovič  for CASSANDRA-20984

Co-authored-by:  Štefan Miklošovič smiklosovic@apache.org
Co-authored-by: TBD TBD

The Cassandra-20984 Jira.

[vivekkoya]

StreamingTest is a work in progress