[infinispan-dev] CacheLoader and CacheStore

[Mircea Markus]

On 14 Aug 2013, at 18:48, Dennis Reed <dereed at redhat.com> wrote:

>> I've written such parser on Friday, basically just copying and rewriting
>> the SingleFileCacheStore stuff (adding my own properties instead). It
>> took me about an hour and I don't hate anyone from infinispan team :)
>> Maybe I am already advanced ISPN user, but I don't consider it as a
>> complicated task as long as there is some template (simple cache-store
>> implementation) I can use for reference.
> 
> If it took you an hour as an advanced user that's intimately familiar 
> with Infinispan to implement it and get it working,
> that means for many of our customers it could take days, and quite a few 
> interactions with support.
> 
> Compare that to the current implementation where ISPN does the XML 
> parsing and calls setters, which takes 0 time no matter the competence 
> of the user.
> 
> I'm 100% *against* forcing customers to write their own XML parsing.

+1
The current parsing-free approach will be kept. Just that we'll add a template for writing stores that would contain a sample optional parser.  

Cheers,
-- 
Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)