[infinispan-dev] protobuf as a marshalling format for infinispan remote-query

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On 8 juil. 2013, at 21:06, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 1 Jul 2013, at 09:29, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
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>> Ah it's quite sad protostuff does not live up to the expectation :(
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>> Compared to the google libs, streamlike is definitely a nice approach but I feel a bit sad to have to use marshallers and the read/write pattern. Having maintained compatibility of Java serializable object, such approach gives me the creep. How would your read code end up after a couple of evolutions, with ifs and other condition branches?
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> Compared with serializable objects, ProtoStream offers runtime validation based on the proto file which should help maintenance.   
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>> There is no example in your tests that I could find. 
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>> Do you think either the protostuff approach or even protostuff itself is salvageable ?
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> There were prototypes written with conversion between domain objects and protoXyz generated classes and the code quite ugly.  

What is ProtoXyz? Anyways, I thought Protostuff was doing just that: runtime binding of a domain model. You are saying that the generated code of ProtoStuff was crap?

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>> From a user point of view, I tend to like this approach more than the stream one. Especially since I don't have to do anything for the first schema version.
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> Cheers,
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> Mircea Markus
> Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)
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