[infinispan-dev] Supporting notifications for entries expired while in the cache store - ISPN-694

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 28 May 2013 13:02, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 28 May 2013, at 12:52, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at infinispan.org> wrote:
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>> This notification feature seems to be very confusing, or at least I
>> find it awkward to understand all special conditions.
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> - we expire things at two levels: memory and store (CacheStore.purgeExpired)
> - we cannot tell the existing store to perform the notification callbacks so we'd only notify for the entries in memory

I understand so far, but that means it's unreliable, so I'm wondering
in which use case that is acceptable.

Sanne


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>> My doubt is, is it worth it?
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>> Is there a reasonable use case, which works fine with all these limitations?
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>> I'd rather drop support for such notifications rather than having to
>> deal with such non-deterministic behaviour.
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> Cheers,
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> Mircea Markus
> Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)
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