[infinispan-dev] Infinispan URL format

[Tristan Tarrant]

In the past there has been talk of representing a connection to 
Infinispan using a URL, in particular for HotRod.
The Hibernate OGM team is now working on adding NoSQL datasources to 
WildFly, and they've asked for they should represent connections to 
various of these.

For Hot Rod:

infinispan:hotrod://[host1][:port1][,[host2][:port2]]...[/cachemanager]

The [cachemanager] part is for multi-tenant servers (Hot Rod doesn't 
currently support this, so this is forward-looking).
Obviously we will support all of the HotRod properties for specifying 
things like security, etc.

For Embedded:

infinispan:embedded:file://path/to/config.xml (for specifying an 
external config file)
infinispan:embedded:jndi://path/to/jndi (for referencing a cachemanager 
in JNDI)
infinispan:embedded: (configuration specified as properties)

For the latter, we also need to be able to represent an infinispan 
configuration using properties with a simple mapping to XML 
elements/attributes, e.g.

cache-manager.local-cache.mycache.eviction.size=1000


Comments are welcome

Tristan
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Tristan Tarrant
Infinispan Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat