[infinispan-dev] Design session today

[Manik Surtani]

On 9 Aug 2013, at 12:06, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at infinispan.org> wrote:

>>> 3. allowing the cache loader to expose unserialised data directly (ValueHolder.getBytes[]).
>> 
>> I used the name ValueHolder but this is a really poor term - how about ContentsProxy?  It is a proxy for the contents of the entry, exposing methods:
>> 
>> interface ContentsProxy {
>>  ByteBuffer getValueBuffer();
>>  ByteBuffer getInternalCacheValueBuffer();
>>  InternalCacheValue getInternalCacheValue();
>> 
>>  // Same as above except this method only deserializes timestamps and metadata.  Not the actual value.
>>  InternalCacheValue getSparseInternalCacheValue();
>> }
> 
> +1 for the name "ContentsProxy".
> On exposing ByteBuffer .. I'm wondering if we shouldn't have our own
> interface, potentially shared with JGroups. For example, I'd like to
> see an appendToEnd capability and an insertToHead which don't require
> to eagerly resize the underlying arrays.

https://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/5.2/apidocs/index.html?org/infinispan/io/ByteBuffer.html

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Manik Surtani