[infinispan-dev] Implementing Hot Rod using Google Protocol Buffers?

[Manik Surtani]

On 14 Jan 2010, at 15:26, Galder Zamarreno wrote:

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> On 01/13/2010 03:32 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> Are you referring to using protobufs as an alternate to the Marshalling framework for marshalling user data, or for implementing the commands, etc. of the protocol?
> 
> The latter, as a way to implement the protocol itself using .proto files 
> and generating the corresponding client/server classes.
> 
> Clearly, if we're to use those generated classes, they'd be abstracting 
> us from the lower level details and quite possible the marshalling itself.

It would certainly add overhead to the protocol, but I suppose it is negligible when compared to the network latency, etc.  Plus it may help people write more clients.

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>> On 13 Jan 2010, at 11:30, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> In a previous email, Bela suggested having a look at Google Protocol
>>> Buffers for implementing Hot Rod.
>>> 
>>> I had a brief look at Google Protocol Buffers and at first glance, the
>>> most obvious advantage is that it abstract the lower level protocol
>>> details and generate higher level code in different languages: Java,
>>> C++, Python.
>>> 
>>> Another thing I've noted is that it does seem to handle different
>>> versions of the protocol in a transparent way, as indicated in "A bit of
>>> history" section in
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html
>>> 
>>> Once we're all happy with the protocol itself, I think it might be worth
>>> doing a small prototype for example with a put operation and an a
>>> cluster formation event and see how it works.
>>> 
>>> What do people think? Anyone with Google Protocol Buffers experience
>>> that could provide us with 1st hand advice?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
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>>> Galder Zamarreño
>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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