[infinispan-dev] Where to put KeyValueFilterFactory and ConverterFactory...

[William Burns]

I was able to look into the details with this a bit.  At first thought
I would think having a module that both the client and server packages
could both depend on would be best.  However the issue is that these
factories produce instances that implement interfaces that live in the
core package, which means the server/client would have to depend on
core anyways.  So I am thinking core is probably the best place for
now.

Thinking about these factories even more it could be useful to use
these at some point in core to allow for non serializable
KeyValueFilter/Converter instances and instead have the factory be
serializable and just create them on each node as needed.

 - Will

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com> wrote:
> To me core is ideal:
> when you develop these components, it's as if you were running in an
> embedded environment (which is what the server essentially is), and core
> is the closest you can get.
>
> Tristan
>
> On 19/06/14 16:12, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As I work on ISPN-3950, I’ve been thinking about the location of KeyValueFilterFactory  and ConverterFactory interfaces. These interfaces provide filter/converter instances to be installed in server/hotrod, but we expect users to provide implementations of such classes and plug the server with them.
>>
>> These interfaces are currently in server/hotrod project, something I’m not keen on doing any more, because users would need to get access to these interfaces and they could start fiddling with other stuff in that module, and I want to avoid that at all costs, particularly since I’m hoping to do some major refactoring of the decoders in 7.1.
>>
>> So, the q is: where should KeyValueFilterFactory and ConverterFactory live?
>>
>> They’re for sure needed by server/hotrod. client/hotrod-client does not need them explicitly, but the users need to provide implementations of them and plug them to the server. With this in mind, core/ might be the best place for it. They cannot live in commons/ cos it’d would require to move KeyValueFilter/Converter and other dependant classes to commons.
>>
>> Is everyone happy with ConverterFactory and KeyValueFilterFactory being in core/?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Galder Zamarreño
>> galder at redhat.com
>> twitter.com/galderz
>>
>>
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