[infinispan-dev] CacheLoader and CacheStore

[Galder Zamarreño]

On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Ray Tsang <saturnism at gmail.com> wrote:

> I actually did not enjoy writing parsers and config builders etc…

^ Why not? Too verbose? Too many classes?  

I'd rather improve this than carry on supporting property-based configuration (any other type safety advocates?)

Cheers,

> 
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 14:58, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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)
>> 
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