[infinispan-dev] Shipping logical address String in Hot Rod protocol v1.1?

[Bela Ban]

On 11/29/11 6:16 PM, Dan Berindei wrote:

>> The underlying UUID would be printed (not a nice sight !)...
>>
>
> Hmm, I sometimes see UUIDs in the test suite logs. This makes me
> think, can we rely on the discovery protocol always giving us the
> logical names of the other cluster members during/after the
> viewAccepted() callback?


No, you can't. For example, if someone did not list *all* IP addresses 
in TCPPING.initial_hosts, we would not get the logical names of some 
members.



>> Can't you grab the UUID which is 2 longs and simply send 2 longs across
>> the wire ? The UUID is guaranteed to be unique.
>>
>
> If we commit to sending a UUID to the HotRod clients it will be harder
> to send something else in the future. One of the reasons we chose to
> send a string was so that we could change the way we generate that
> string without breaking the clients.


Why don't you send the UUID as a (16 byte) string then ?




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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups (http://www.jgroups.org)
JBoss / Red Hat