[infinispan-dev] Shipping logical address String in Hot Rod protocol v1.1?

[Dan Berindei]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Bela Ban <bban at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/30/11 8:59 AM, Dan Berindei wrote:
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>>> Why don't you send the UUID as a (16 byte) string then ?
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, that would work. However, a UUID is not always a valid UTF-8
>> string, so we should probably define it in the protocol as an array of
>> bytes (without any meaning).
>
>
> Yes. We did something similar in JGroups, take a look at
> ENCRYPT.byteArrayToHexString().
>

Since HotRod is a binary protocol I meant to send the UUID as it is
(no encoding whatsoever).

I think sending the UUID as a hex-encoded string, a raw byte array, or
a 32-bit hash (since that's all we need on the client) are all valid
choices.

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