[infinispan-dev] ProtoStream and ease of use

[Manik Surtani]

I'm sorry I missed this.  Is there an example of each API somewhere?

On 15 Jul 2013, at 14:01, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Mircea, Adrian and I had an IRC chat on ProtoStream and ProtoStuff.
> 
> check out
> http://transcripts.jboss.org/channel/irc.freenode.org/%23infinispan/2013/%23infinispan.2013-07-15.log.html
> starting at 11:00 and finishing at 12:30
> 
> A short summary of what has been discussed:
> 
> - ProtoStream is a good cross-platform solution but
>  - complicated for the simple pure Java case
>  - encourages a technical superclass (EJB 2 !!!!!)
> - ProtoStuff convention + annotation based approach
>  https://code.google.com/p/protostuff/wiki/ProtostuffRuntime is nice
>  for the pure Java case
> - ProtoStuff is many things and has a non ProtoBuf compliant format for
>  cycle ref and polymorphism
> - ProtoStream supports unknown fields (future version of a schema),
>  ProtoBuf does not
> - we could build a convention based solution atop ProtoStream
>  - assuming UnknownFieldSet and BaseMessage are optional
>  - using (cross platform) conventions
>  - with metadata to go beyond conventions (annotation, programmatic
>    API, XML...)
> 
>        public long size; //uses fixed64 by default
>        @PSType(UINT64) long size; //override protobuf type
> 
> - Infinispan will/could(?) have a repo of schema that can be queries
> - we are talking about how the schema is resolved / generated
>  - what we send through the wire is independent of the Proto*
> 
> A ProtoBuf vs ProtoStream comparison points
> https://gist.github.com/mmarkus/5999646
> 
> Emmanuel
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