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Sanjay Radia commented on HADOOP-8990:
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bq. so you plan to serialize header and body to some buffer first and then
write to socket
That is what the current code does. This should be changed to use coded output
stream to avoid the buffering; I believe this may require some more code change
(not protocol changes) and that this can be done at later point.
> Some minor issus in protobuf based ipc
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> Key: HADOOP-8990
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8990
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Binglin Chang
> Priority: Minor
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> 1. proto file naming
> RpcPayloadHeader.proto include not only RpcPayLoadHeaderProto, but also
> RpcResponseHeaderProto, which is irrelevant to the file name.
> hadoop_rpc.proto only include HadoopRpcRequestProto, and the filename
> "hadoop_rpc" is strange comparing to other .proto file names.
> How about merge those two file into HadoopRpc.proto?
> 2. proto class naming
> In rpc request RpcPayloadHeaderProto includes callId, but in rpc response
> callId is included in RpcResponseHeaderProto, and there is also
> HadoopRpcRequestProto, this is just too confusing.
> 3. The rpc system is not fully protobuf based, there are still some Writables:
> RpcRequestWritable and RpcResponseWritable.
> rpc response exception name and stack trace string.
> And RpcRequestWritable uses protobuf style varint32 prefix, but
> RpcResponseWritable uses int32 prefix, why this inconsistency?
> Currently rpc request is splitted into length, PayLoadHeader and PayLoad, and
> response into RpcResponseHeader, response and error message.
> I think wrap request and response into single RequstProto and ResponseProto
> is better, cause this gives a formal complete wire format definition,
> or developer need to look into the source code and hard coding the
> communication format.
> These issues above make it very confusing and hard for developers to use
> these rpc interfaces.
> Some of these issues can be solved without breaking compatibility, but some
> can not, but at least we need to know what will be changed and what will stay
> stable?
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