[infinispan-dev] Feedback and requests on clustered and remote listeners

[Mircea Markus]

On Sep 23, 2014, at 16:39, William Burns <mudokonman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 16:27, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 23 Sep 2014, at 14:53, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 15:18, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> I am not sold on this as it seems pretty trivial to decipher which
>>>>>> operation is which and the information would be present on the
>>>>>> javadocs as well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I very strongly disagree. Cf the other thread with Radim 's comment on topology error.
>>>>> And think about *future* evolutions. The enum would make that much safer. In the bin enum world you would have to introduce a new YetAnotherKeyValueFilter interface :)
>>>> 
>>>> Nicer than an enum would be an explicit method, e.g. handlePut/handleDelete/handleCreate/handleUpdate, as these would also receive the appropriate param list. Of course this means moving away from the KeyValueFilter to an UpdateFilter (good name, Radim) used only for cluster listeners.
> 
> I like the name as well :)  The only thing that I dislike about the
> extra methods is the fact that it isn't a Functional interface, which
> would be nice to have when we ever move to Java 8, but that may be
> thinking too f?ar into the future :P

Agreed, OTOH having a functional interface implemented with a switch statement around the op type wouldn't be too nice either. 

> 
>>>> Will, what would be the overall impact on the A
> 
> The biggest part is the usage with the cluster iterator.  Currently
> the Listener uses the same filter that it is provided to also do the
> iteration.  If we want to go down the line of having the extra
> interface(s), which overall I do like, then I am thinking we may want
> to change the Listener annotation to no longer have an
> includeCurrentState parameter and instead add a new method to the
> addListener method of Cache that takes a KeyValueFilter and the new
> UpdateFilter (as well as the 2 converters).

Do we still want to keep the KeyValueFilter method or replace it entirely with the UpdateFilter version?

>  I can then add in 2
> bridge implementations so that you don't have to implement the other
> if your implementation can handle both types.  Also from the other
> post it seems that I should add the retry boolean to all the
> appropriate methods so that you can have a chance to detect if an
> update was missed.  Unless this seems to cumbersome?

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