[infinispan-dev] RELAY2 using shorts as site-ids

[Bela Ban]

Yes. We can probably do this without even changing the API; possibly 
even by deprecating only a constructor.

On 7/1/13 8:16 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> It doesn't look like an issue, but you could encode the (deprecated)
> short configuration option as a string right?
>
> On 1 July 2013 15:33, Bela Ban <bban at redhat.com> wrote:
>> This is re [1].
>>
>> I want to replace shorts as site-ids with strings. This would make EAP
>> and JDG configuration simpler, as both configure the mapping from site
>> string (e.g. "sfo") to ID (e.g. 1) on the fly. If we have sites sfo, lon
>> and nyc in 1 config, we might end up with sfo=0, lon=1 and nyc=2. If we
>> only configure lon and nyc in a differemt config, we have lon=0, nyc=1.
>> This means that the second site interprets 0 as lon, although it was
>> effectively sent by sfo.
>>
>> However, this will make RELAY2 incompatible with previous releases as
>> SiteUUID is now different. The change would be in 3.4 (not 3.3.x), and
>> as it will be used by Infinispan 6.0, I don't think this should be an
>> issue...
>>
>> Thoughts ?
>>
>> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1640
>>
>> --
>> Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org)


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