[infinispan-dev] requirements for the new CacheStore API
Mircea Markus
mmarkus at redhat.com
Wed Jul 24 11:45:39 EDT 2013
On 24 Jul 2013, at 16:42, Galder Zamarreño <galder at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Starting from the original document Manik rolled out a while ago [1], here's the list of requirements I'm currently aware of in the context of the new CacheStore API:
>> - better integration with the fluent API (CacheStore.init() is horrendous)
>> - support for non-distributed transaction cache stores (1PC) and support for XA capable cache store
>> - support iteration over all the keys/entries in the store
>> - needed for efficient Map/Reduce integration
>> - needed for efficient implementation of Cache.keySet(), Cache.entrySet(), Cache.values() methods
>> - a simple read(k) + write(k,v) interface to be implemented by users that just want to position ISPN as a cache between an app and a legacy system and which don't need/want to be bothered with all the other complex features
>> - support for expiration notification (ISPN-3064)
>> - support for size (efficient implementation of the cache.size() method)
>>
>> Re: JSR-107 integration, I don't think we should depend on the JSR-107 API as it forces us to use JSR-107 internal structures[2] but we should at least provide an adapter layer.
>
> I agree on not depending on it, but design it in such way that's easy to write such adapter. IOW, make sure the functionality in the JSR-107 API is covered easily, without having add boiler-plate code :)
+1
Cheers,
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Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)
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