[infinispan-dev] HotRod, ClientIntelligence and client-side key location

[Manik Surtani]

On 20 Apr 2010, at 15:20, Mircea Markus wrote:

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> On 20 Apr 2010, at 16:58, Manik Surtani wrote:
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>> On 16 Apr 2010, at 23:45, Mircea Markus wrote:
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>>> On 14 Apr 2010, at 10:22, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
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>>>> Apologies for the delay getting back to this. I think Mircea does have a point here. 
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>>>> I think his suggestion might make the the hash function parameters more future proof at the cost of a vInt for the parameter number and a String with the parameter name in the response.
>>> +1. This is more generic and the cost is only one additional param (int?), that's only sent once per HR client.
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>>>> I can't however give individual examples on parameters that'd be needed in the future.
>>> What about virtual node count, for a function that uses virtual nodes?
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>> There is no guarantee that we'd ever implement a virt node mechanism.  
> sure, but we might implement it, and somebody else might implement other functions that need other params

Then we could address it in a future version of the protocol.  As it stands though, I don't see the need.

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