ok, thanks Doug, I was hoping to get everything out of the box, but that's close enough I guess...
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > Ran Tavory wrote: > >> Here's my set of requirements: >> > > It seems to me that Avro satisfies most of these. I'll comment below. > > 1. Easy and intuitive IDL. No serial numbers, no manual versioning, >> >> simple... avro is a good example for this. >> 2. Works with Java and Python >> > > Check. > > 3. Supports both fast binary prorocol, as well as HTTP based restful >> >> style. I'd like to be able to use it for both backend-to-backend >> communication (java-java or python-java) as well as >> frontend-to-backend communication (javascript to java). >> 4. The rest support needs to include ¶m=value input as get/post >> >> requests (configurable per request) and output in three possible >> formats: json, jsonp, XML. >> > > Avro does not currently support url-encoded query-string parameters. A > Java servlet that does this could be added without too much difficulty. > Alternately, one might develop an Avro library in Javascript that could > make binary requests. > > One could also easily define an XML-encoding for Avro data. However > implementing it and maintaining in all languages might be difficult. So I > prefer to consider anything other than the binary encoding as optional for > implementations. Thus applications should generally use the binary encoding > to ensure the greatest intercompatibility. > > A JSON-encoding of Avro data is specified that could perhaps also be used > to implement a jsonp-style approach. > > 5. Compact, fast, backward compatible, easy to upgrade etc... >> > > Check. > > 6. Provides some nice monitoring interfaces such as: JMX, web page >> >> status reports (e.g. packets in, packets out, error rate etc) >> > > Avro Java has a statistics plugin. This could be enhanced if there were > particular values you require. > > > http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/docs/current/api/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/stats/package-summary.html > > 7. Ops friendly... no need to take the whole site down to release new >> >> versions >> >> ... other goodies are welcome... >> >> Is there something out there? >> So far I've looked at thrift and avro and they are both nice in some ways, >> but don't check all my list. >> > > Doug > >
