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

[Mircea Markus]

On 1 Jul 2013, at 09:29, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:

> 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?

Compared with serializable objects, ProtoStream offers runtime validation based on the proto file which should help maintenance.   

> There is no example in your tests that I could find. 
> 
> Do you think either the protostuff approach or even protostuff itself is salvageable ?

There were prototypes written with conversion between domain objects and protoXyz generated classes and the code quite ugly.  

> 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. 
> 

Cheers,
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Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)