[infinispan-dev] protobuf as a marshalling format for infinispan remote-query

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Ah it's quite sad protostuff does not live up to the expectation :(

Compared to the google libs, streamlike is definitely a nice approach but I feel a bit sad to have to use marshallers and the read/write pattern. Having maintained compatibility of Java serializable object, such approach gives me the creep. How would your read code end up after a couple of evolutions, with ifs and other condition branches? There is no example in your tests that I could find. 

Do you think either the protostuff approach or even protostuff itself is salvageable ? From a user point of view, I tend to like this approach more than the stream one. Especially since I don't have to do anything for the first schema version. 

Emmanuel

On 28 juin 2013, at 20:53, Adrian Nistor <anistor at redhat.com> wrote:

> ProtoStreams fits :)!
> 
> Many people seem to need such a library, that's why protostuff [1] project was created as an alternative, which sadly is quite incomplete for our purposes (lacks support for schema evolution! - unknown fields are just discarded) and does not seem to be frequently maintained.
> 
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> [1] http://code.google.com/p/protostuff/
> 
> 
> On 06/28/2013 09:39 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> 
>> On 28 Jun 2013, at 19:33, Adrian Nistor <anistor at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> And finally, if anyone could suggest a better name for the stream-like package? I can't think of any other option except streamlike :) (which might be trade-marked) So any other options? If no options then we'll just call it marshaling. I'll move this to the ispn branch once I know the package name :)
>> 
>> Maybe it should be a separate project.  I can imagine many others finding such a library useful.  ProtoStreams?  :) 
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