Hi all,
For a demo I'm giving next week, I'd like to show how to use distributed streams
via a remote server task. All server tasks that we have in testsuite rely on primitives
but in my case I wanted to use POJOs.
To do that, I needed to get compatibility mode working in such way that those POJOs could
be unmarshalled for the server task. Since in another demo I'm showing Protostream
based POJOs, I thought I'd try to use that as mechanism to unmarshall POJOs server
side.
We have a test for such scenario [1], but the reality (running on a proper server) is
anything that simple. Here's a list of things I've found out while creating a
WordCount example that relies on a POJO:
1. Out of the box, it's impossible to set compatibility marshaller to
org.infinispan.query.remote.CompatibilityProtoStreamMarshaller [1] because
"org.infinispan.main" classloader can't access that class. I worked around
that by tweaking the module.xml to have an optional dependency to
"org.infinispan.remote-query.server" module.
2. After doing that, I had to register the protofile and associated classes remotely in
the server. Again, there's no out of the box mechanism for that, so I created a remote
server task that would do that [3].
3. Finally, with all that in place, I was able to complete the WordCount test [4] with a
final caveat: the return of the word count, and words protofile registration, tasks return
objects that are not marshalled by the compatibility marshaller, so I had to make sure
that the remote cache manager used for those tasks uses the default marshaller.
Clearly we need to improve on this, and we have plans to address these issues (with new
upcoming transcoding capabilities), but I thought it'd be worth mentioning the
problems found in case anyone else encounters them before transcoding is in place.
Cheers,
[1]
https://github.com/galderz/datagrid-patterns/blob/master/server-config/do...
[2]
https://github.com/galderz/datagrid-patterns/blob/master/server-config/or...
[3]
https://github.com/galderz/datagrid-patterns/blob/master/analytics-stream...
[4]
https://github.com/galderz/datagrid-patterns/blob/master/analytics-stream...
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Galder Zamarreño
Infinispan, Red Hat