Re: [infinispan-dev] ProtoStream and ease of use

ProtoStream is like this https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/blob/master/core/src/test/java/... https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/blob/master/core/src/test/java/... (I believe the BaseMessage superclass of Account is optional, not sure). A convention based approach would be like this package org.infinispan.protostream.domain; import org.infinispan.protostream.BaseMessage; /** * @author ebernard(a)redhat.com */ public class Account { private int id; private String description; public int getId() { return id; } public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; } public String getDescription() { return description; } public void setDescription(String description) { this.description = description; } @Override public String toString() { return "Account{" + "id=" + id + ", description='" + description + '\'' + ", unknownFieldSet='" + unknownFieldSet + '\'' + '}'; } } Or let's imagine that we need to make id use a specific protobuf type package org.infinispan.protostream.domain; import org.infinispan.protostream.BaseMessage; /** * @author ebernard(a)redhat.com */ public class Account { @PSType(UINT32) private int id; private String description; public int getId() { return id; } public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; } public String getDescription() { return description; } public void setDescription(String description) { this.description = description; } @Override public String toString() { return "Account{" + "id=" + id + ", description='" + description + '\'' + ", unknownFieldSet='" + unknownFieldSet + '\'' + '}'; } } Note that a concern is that field ordering (in the bytecode) is not guaranteed across VMs and compilation and I believe that is an important factor of ProtoBuf. So somehow we would need a way to express field indexes wich would amke the annotation approach more verbose. On Mon 2013-07-15 16:04, Manik Surtani wrote: