[infinispan-dev] Auto-detection of appropriate key2StringMapperClass

[Sanne Grinovero]

Hi Dan!

On 9 March 2017 at 09:38, Dan Berindei <dan.berindei at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every store can have its own Key2StringMapper, so I really don't think
> service discovery is appropriate here.

I suggested a default, while maintaining the property as an override option.

It won't make any difference to people in the situation you describe,
but it will avoid trouble for many more users.

In my experience when one develops a custom type & a custom
Key2StringMapper, you really wouldn't have interest in creating
multiple implementations for the same type. The only case in which I
can see some use for allowing multiple conflicting registrations to
the same type is for upgrade / migration cases..

>
> My favourite solution would be to have a default Key2StringMapper
> implementation that uses Java serialization (not our internal
> marshalling, because that can change between versions). It could even
> do base64 encoding for databases that don't have a VARBINARY/BYTEA
> equivalent.
>
> Cheers
> Dan
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at infinispan.org> wrote:
>> It seems I keep forgetting that the "key2StringMapperClass" needs to
>> be explicitly set when using the String based JDBC CacheStore, which I
>> think is a quite popular store.
>>
>> http://infinispan.org/docs/dev/user_guide/user_guide.html#storing_the_index_in_a_database
>>
>> I think we could remove the need to configure this with an appropriate
>> service discovery?
>>
>> We could keep the property so to be able to override the discovery process.
>>
>> Would anyone volunteer to implement this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sanne
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