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

[Mircea Markus]

On 1 Jul 2013, at 16:33, 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 ?

I don't see any issue with it either.

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