[infinispan-dev] Hot Rod - pt2

[Galder Zamarreno]

On 12/15/2009 01:13 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
> A few comments:
>
> - Why do you have OpCode in your response header?  Surely this is redundant?  If the client is sync, it knows what it sent.  If it is async, it has a message ID.

True, I fixed that.

> - 'Not So Dumb' and 'Clever' response headers should be optional?  Surely this stuff is only sent when there is a topology change?  We also may need some extra info here - how does the back-end know to send this info?  If a client hits different back-end nodes, and there is a topology change, how does Node A decide that it should not bother with topology info since the client already hit Node B after the topo change and has the new topology map?  Perhaps a TopologyVersion (== JGroups View ID) should be sent back with any topo map, and the client would send it's current TopologyVersion with every request (non-dumb clients only)?  Could be a vlong...

Yeah, as you and Mircea suggest, clients sending the view id could help 
better manage size of responses.

Something to note here is that not all cluster view changes necessarily 
involve a client side topology view change, cos if you have N infinispan 
nodes in the cluster, you could have M running hot rod server where M <= 
N. So, Hot rod will need to figure out when there's been a view change 
in the cluster that involves the addition or removal of a hot rod 
running Infinispan instance (similar thing to what happens when a 
clustered EJB is deployed, the target list for that clustered EJB gets 
updated).

So, bearing in mind this, could we just use the JGroups view id for 
this? AFAIK, it's 0 based long but shouldn't cause problems with 
complete cluster restarts. If the whole cluster gets restarted, existing 
connections will be closed and at that point, clients could revert back 
to trying to connect one of their known hot rod servers and pass -1 as 
view id which means that I have no view, so the responding server would 
send back the hot rod cluster view.

I'll add this to the wiki.

>
> Cheers
> Manik
>
>
> On 14 Dec 2009, at 20:08, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Re: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/HotRodProtocol
>>
>> I've updated the wiki with the following stuff:
>> - Renamed replaceIfEquals to replaceIfUnmodified
>> - Added remove and removeIfUnmodified.
>> - Added containsKey command.
>> - Added getWithCas command so that cas value can be returned. I decided
>> for a separate command rather than adding cas to get return because you
>> don't always want cas to be returned. Having a separate command makes
>> better use of network bandwith.
>> - Added stats command. JMX attributes are basically accessible through
>> this, including cache size.
>> - Added error handling section and updated status codes.
>>
>> Note that Mircea added some interesting comments and I replied to them
>> directly in the wiki.
>>
>> Still remaining to add:
>> - Commands: putForExternalRead evict, clear, version, name and quite
>> commands.
>> - Passing flags.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> p.s. Updating this has been quite a struggle due to F12 + FF 3.5.5
>> crashing at least 5 times, plus parts of the wiki dissapearing after
>> publishing them!
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