[infinispan-dev] Metrics and interceptors

A recent issue with some refactoring of the PassivationInterceptor affecting code using it directly (EAP's Infinispan subsystem), has got me thinking about the fact that we have somewhat treated interceptors as a form of API since we do not provide another way of retrieving metrics collected by the interceptors, aside from the basic cache stats. With the plan to eventually drop interceptors, these kind of metrics should be exposed through a more stable API (aside from maintaining stability of the MBean side of things). The org.infinispan.stats.Stats interface already partially covers that for basic stats (see org.infinispan.cache.AdvancedCache.getStats()), and I think it should be extended or at least complemented to do this. WDYT ? Tristan -- Tristan Tarrant Infinispan Lead JBoss, a division of Red Hat