[infinispan-dev] ISPN-78 and Large Object Support/Streaming API

[Manik Surtani]

On 18 May 2010, at 16:02, Philippe Van Dyck wrote:

> It may sound a bit extreme but what about using streams as the base interface and converting values to streams asap ?

It's certainly worth thinking about.

How would his affect listeners though, where listeners expect objects, not streams?

> The conversion could be seen as the marshaling operation and the result as a stream of bytes ?
> 
> The 'base' interface would be as simple as:
> OutputStream<byte[]> get(K)
> put(K, InputStream<byte[]>)
> 
> the Map<K,V> facade simply 'marshalls' values to byte arrays and calls the 'base' interface.
> 
> This way, you get rid of any buffering from the very beginning and give streams to cache stores... (You actually replace byte arrays by piped(in/out)putstreams in your futures)... 
> 
> Btw, I can assure you that some cache store maintainers will be super happy to receive and produce streams ;-)
> 
> my 2 cents...
> 
> phil
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org> wrote:
> I have put together a brief design for ISPN-78.  Please take a look, it is on the wiki:
> 
>        https://community.jboss.org/wiki/LargeObjectSupport
> 
> I have also deferred ISPN-78 to 5.0.0 rather than 4.1.0 as I'd rather not hold up 4.1.0 for new features at this stage.
> 
> Please have a look at the designs and let me know what you think - or comment on the wiki page.
> 
> Cheers
> Manik
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