[infinispan-dev] ProtoStream and ease of use
Manik Surtani
msurtani at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 11:04:01 EDT 2013
I'm sorry I missed this. Is there an example of each API somewhere?
On 15 Jul 2013, at 14:01, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Mircea, Adrian and I had an IRC chat on ProtoStream and ProtoStuff.
>
> check out
> http://transcripts.jboss.org/channel/irc.freenode.org/%23infinispan/2013/%23infinispan.2013-07-15.log.html
> starting at 11:00 and finishing at 12:30
>
> A short summary of what has been discussed:
>
> - ProtoStream is a good cross-platform solution but
> - complicated for the simple pure Java case
> - encourages a technical superclass (EJB 2 !!!!!)
> - ProtoStuff convention + annotation based approach
> https://code.google.com/p/protostuff/wiki/ProtostuffRuntime is nice
> for the pure Java case
> - ProtoStuff is many things and has a non ProtoBuf compliant format for
> cycle ref and polymorphism
> - ProtoStream supports unknown fields (future version of a schema),
> ProtoBuf does not
> - we could build a convention based solution atop ProtoStream
> - assuming UnknownFieldSet and BaseMessage are optional
> - using (cross platform) conventions
> - with metadata to go beyond conventions (annotation, programmatic
> API, XML...)
>
> public long size; //uses fixed64 by default
> @PSType(UINT64) long size; //override protobuf type
>
> - Infinispan will/could(?) have a repo of schema that can be queries
> - we are talking about how the schema is resolved / generated
> - what we send through the wire is independent of the Proto*
>
> A ProtoBuf vs ProtoStream comparison points
> https://gist.github.com/mmarkus/5999646
>
> Emmanuel
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