Dmitry,
The main difference in my view is that you lose pagination when sending
results from servers to client. What if one wants to iterate through all
entries in cache?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org>
wrote:
> Valentin,
>
> Wouldn’t the same effect be achieved by broadcasting a closure to the
> cluster and executing scan-query on every node locally?
>
> D.
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Valentin Kulichenko <
> valentin.kuliche...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Igniters,
> >
> > I keep getting requests from our users to add optional transformers to
> SCAN
> > queries. This will allow to iterate through cache, but do not transfer
> > whole key-value pairs across networks (e.g., get only keys). The feature
> > looks useful and I created a ticket [1].
> >
> > I am struggling with the design now. The problem is that I wanted to
> extend
> > existing ScanQuery object for this, but this seems to be impossible
> because
> > it already extends Query<Cache.Entry<K, V>> and thus can iterate only
> > through entries.
> >
> > The only option I see now is to create a separate query type, copy-paste
> > everything from ScanQuery and add *mandatory* transformer. Something like
> > this:
> >
> > ScanTransformQuery<K, V, R> extends Query<R> {
> > IgniteBiPredicate<K, V> filter;
> > IgniteClosure<Cache.Entry<K, V>, R> transformer;
> > int part;
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > Thoughts? Does anyone has other ideas?
> >
> > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-2546
> >
> > -Val
> >
>
