[aerogear-dev] Data Sync Thoughts

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Tue Jan 28 12:37:26 EST 2014


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:

>  On 01/28/2014 12:32 PM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:
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>>  On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:
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>>>   On 01/28/2014 12:13 PM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:
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>>>>  On 01/28/2014 11:46 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>wrote:
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>>>>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>
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>>>>> > On 01/28/2014 09:36 AM, Lucas Holmquist wrote:
>>>>> >> yup, this is another Data Sync thread,
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>>>>> >>> From a client side perspective, i have concerns that there is
>>>>> still not a clear direction yet.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I know there are multiple ideas floating around on what our model
>>>>> should be,  i'm all for choice, but what about deciding on 1 model to get
>>>>> started with.  Then later once we have this nailed down,  we can have other
>>>>> "adapters" with different models perhaps
>>>>> > All the data model is is an envelope of sync metadata around an
>>>>> object
>>>>> > right?
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>>>>>  right
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>>>>> > We also need to think about the API and server/client protocol as
>>>>> well.
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>>>>> > I think that for sync 1.0 we could focus on the following behavior
>>>>> (it
>>>>> > worked for my demos at least)
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>>>>> > 1.  We have a Sync factory similar to Pipeline, Authenticator,
>>>>> > Registrar, and KeyService.
>>>>> > 2.  The Sync factory consumes/manages Synchronizer instances.
>>>>> > 3.  AG Synchronizer listens for sync messages using UnifiedPush
>>>>> endpoints.
>>>>>  i thought for a 1.0 we weren't thinking about "realtime"
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>>>>  that is my impression as well, talking to Dan on IRC;
>>>> ATM all is polling, but the sync-server will be cable of doing
>>>> WebSocket/SockJS, so "connected" clients, can sync.
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>>>>  Polling is MURDER on battery, performance, and "feel".  WebSockets and
>>>> SockJS are awesome ideas for a future implementation for "real time".
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>>>  As far as I understood it, the sync-server just started w/ polling
>>> (pure HTTP). I think that WebSocket/SockJS is not really that far away, in
>>> terms of 'future'
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>>>>  Push should be really used for 'wake-up', instead of changing real
>>>> information; Also SimplePush clients could not even integrate here (the
>>>> protocol just uses version (or timestamps)
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>>>>  Yes.
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>>>> On the topic of Simple Push, you push a URL so in theory you could push
>>>> /Documents/${collecitonName}/${id}/${rev_id} and have simple push setup to
>>>> accept URLS formatted that way right?  Or is it more limited than that?
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>>>  you can simply ONLY push a version number, that's it
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>>>  I just reread things.  It is worse than that.  You can (should) only
>>> push an increasing version number.  So anything checksum based will fail.
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>>   best practice is 'timestamp' - that's all you can push over to those
>> devices
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>  for a good reason
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> Yeah.  I keep forgetting how simple simplepush is.
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> My original though on simple push was that a client to register as a
> listener for /Documents/Collections and it would receive pushes to
> /Documents/Collections/foo/bar.  I was totally wrong :)
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> This gives a much better context to everything that is also going on.
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you are now buying the real-time ?



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>>>>> > 4.  AG Synchronizer sends sync messages using Pipes
>>>>> > 5.  AG Synchronizer holds local data in a store
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>>>>> > 6.  When AGSynchronizer gets a message it is responsible for updating
>>>>> > the Store and then notifying code listing for updates OR for
>>>>> notifying
>>>>> > the code that an error has occurred and needs to be addressed.
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>>>>> > 7.  When the developer updates data in the store, the synchronizer
>>>>> > should package that data and send it to the server.  The
>>>>> synchronizer is
>>>>> > responsible for error handling, retrying, back-off, etc.
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>>>>> > 8.  We should include multiple synchronizer implementations to deal
>>>>> with
>>>>> > multiple very simple use cases which involve legacy systems. (For
>>>>> > instance polling to load static data on a schedule.)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thoughts? Tomatoes?
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