Yes, if it doesn't affect a properly registered AdvancedExternalizer then we should
only do this for 5.2.0.
On 3 May 2012, at 15:40, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
Is this change going to blow up serialization of our objects? People
might use different Infinispan micro version inadvertently....
On 12-05-03 10:18 AM, Paul Ferraro wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification Galder. I'm in the process of creating
> Externalizers to optimize the serialization done by Infinispan and this
> clears up a lot of my confusion.
>
> It's ok by me if you make this change in 5.1.x.
>
> On 05/03/2012 02:23 AM, Galder ZamarreƱo wrote:
>> Re:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2029
>>
>> Just a heads up as a result of an interesting discussion with Paul Ferraro last
night:
>>
>> So far Externalizer interface has extended Serializable and last night I was
trying to wonder why that was.
>>
>> As you guys might remember (
https://docs.jboss.org/author/x/PwY5), there's
two type of externalizers: user friendly and advanced.
>>
>> The user friendly ones do not require any pre-registration or anything and thanks
to the ability of JBMAR to ship Externalizers to remote nodes, we can support such use
case. However, this requires Externalizer impls to be Serializable or Externalizable
somehow.
>>
>> However, that requirement is not there for advanced externalizers cos these must
be registered somehow, either via programmatic or XML configuration, so in these case
there's no shipping of Externalizer impls at all.
>>
>> So, I'm gonna remove 'implements Serializable' from
org.infinispan.marshall.Externalizer and instead require that any user-friendly
externalizers are marker as Serializable or similar.
>>
>> I'll be making this change in master, but what about 5.1.x? This change is
not urgent but clarifies what the externalizer serialization requirements are.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Galder ZamarreƱo
>> Sr. Software Engineer
>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
>>
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