[hibernate-dev] [SEARCH] Master nodes without class definitions

[Yoann Rodiere]

Hello,

In our roadmap for 5.8, we have this:

Removal of class definitions from master nodes
> The integration of a "master node" needs to be simplified, both in terms
> of user configuration and implementation. We plan to not need user classes
> (entities) on such a node, so that in future it could be a separate
> download which works out of the box with minimal configuration.


I guess what you are doing, Sanne, about replacing Class<?> references with
an internal binding representation, is part of that, but there doesn't seem
to be any trace of those efforts in JIRA.

Is there a ticket about this? I don't think there is one with a 5.8 "Fix
version", but maybe somewhere else... ?

On a side note, there may be hidden complexity in having
mapping-independent master nodes: we can probably use a generic
representation of documents for document additions/updates, but with
 Elasticsearch, and probably very soon also with Lucene 7, we need to
initialize indexes with a schema. So at least one node needs both write
access to the indexes *and* knowledge of the mapping... Which
mapping-independent master nodes would prevent.

Yoann Rodière
Hibernate NoORM Team
yoann at hibernate.org