[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-2914?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin... ] Van Halbert edited comment on TEIID-2914 at 4/3/14 8:29 AM: ------------------------------------------------------------ Related to using protobuf's, its recommended by infinispan to use the following logic to obtain the metadata: import org.infinispan.client.hotrod.marshall.ProtoStreamMarshaller; import org.infinispan.client.hotrod.RemoteCacheManager; import org.infinispan.protostream.SerializationContext; ... com.google.protobuf.Descriptors.Descriptor descriptor = ProtoStreamMarshaller.getSerializationContext(remoteCacheManager).getMessageDescriptor("{protobuf.objectName}"); The descriptor has a getJavaType() method that will be used, instead of doing reflections, as is done in the object translator. Now, if this logic is pushed into the translator, it brings a lot of dependencies. And on the other had, if put into the connector, I was thinking the cacheContainerWrapper as the means to expose this info, as the connection has access to this object. was (Author: van.halbert): Related to using protobuf's, its recommended by infinispan to use the following logic to obtain the metadata: import org.infinispan.client.hotrod.marshall.ProtoStreamMarshaller; import org.infinispan.client.hotrod.RemoteCacheManager; import org.infinispan.protostream.SerializationContext; ... com.google.protobuf.Descriptors.Descriptor descriptor = ProtoStreamMarshaller.getSerializationContext(remoteCacheManager).getMessageDescriptor("{protobuf.objectName}"); The descriptor has a getJavaType() method that will be used, instead of doing reflections, as is done in the object translator. Now, if this logic is pushed into the translator, it brings a lot of dependencies. And on the other had, if put into the connector, I was thinking the cacheContainerWrapper as the means to obtain this info, as the connection has access to this object. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira