Pavel,

This forces user to implement Binarylizable for whole type in case they
want to change encoding for one-two fields, right? I really don't like it,
why not add default encoding to BinaryTypeConfiguration?

-Val

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Pavel Tupitsyn <ptupit...@apache.org>
wrote:

> > 1 byte for every field just for this
> GridBinaryMarshaller.STRING data type remains untouched.
> We add GridBinaryMarshaller.STRING_ENCODED, which has additional byte for
> encoding type.
>
> This means no overhead for existing code.
> I think the most common use case is English, which uses 1 byte per char in
> UTF-8.
> This is already as fast and compact as possible, and we don't want to
> introduce any lookup overhead here.
>
> And when user knows that their data will be more compact in some specific
> encoding,
> they use some BinaryWriter.writeString overload, which writes a different
> type code.
>
> Yes, it also writes an extra byte, but you save a byte per char of the
> actual string
> (for example, when using Windows-1251 for Russian text), so this does not
> matter.
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Pavel, what would be the size overhead? Are we adding 1 byte for every
> > field just for this? If you would like to have this info in the binary
> > object directly, can we in this case have some bitmap of
> field-to-encoding?
> >
> > D.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Pavel Tupitsyn <ptupit...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not sure I uderstand how this "per field" configuration is supposed
> > to
> > > be implemented.
> > > * Marshaller is not tied to a cache. It serializes all kinds of things,
> > > like compute job parameters and results.
> > > * Raw mode does not involve field names.
> > >
> > > Also it seems like a complicated and expensive solution - looking up
> > string
> > > format somewhere in the metadata will be slow.
> > >
> > > "encoded string" data type suggestion from Vladimir looks better to me
> > from
> > > performance and implementation standpoint.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Pavel
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <
> > dsetrak...@apache.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Igor Sapego <isap...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Just a note from the platforms guy:
> > > > >
> > > > > Solution with table-level configuration is going to be
> significantly
> > > > > harder to implement for platforms and ODBC then field-level one.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Igor, it seems like you are advocating the per-cell configuration,
> not
> > > > per-field one. The per-field configuration can be defined at the
> > > > table/cache level.
> > > >
> > > > I see your point about C++ and .NET integrations however. Can't we
> > > provide
> > > > this info at node-join time or table-creation time? This way all
> nodes
> > > will
> > > > receive it and you will be able to grab it on different platforms.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, what about binary objects, which are not stored in cache,
> > > > > but being marshalled?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I think the default system encoding should be used here. If we don't
> > have
> > > > configuration for default encoding, we should add it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Best Regards,
> > > > > Igor
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <
> > > > dsetrak...@apache.org>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Vyacheslav Daradur <
> > > > daradu...@gmail.com
> > > > > >
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Encoding must be set on per field basis. This will give us as
> > > most
> > > > > > > flexible
> > > > > > > > solution at the cost of 1-byte overhead.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Vova, I agree that the encoding should be set on per-field
> > basis,
> > > > but
> > > > > > at
> > > > > > > > the table level, not at a cell level.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Dmitriy, Vladimir,
> > > > > > > Let's use both approaches :-)
> > > > > > > We can add parameter to CacheConfiguration.
> > > > > > > If parameter specifie to use cache level encoding then
> marshaller
> > > > will
> > > > > > use
> > > > > > > encoding in a cache,
> > > > > > > otherwise marshaller will use per-field encoding.
> > > > > > > Of course only if it doesn't complicate the solution.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > I think that it will complicate the solution and will complicate
> > the
> > > > > > marshalling protocol. The advantage of specifying the encoding at
> > > > > > table/cache level is that we don't need to add extra encoding
> bytes
> > > to
> > > > > the
> > > > > > marshalling protocol.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think Vova was suggesting encoding at the cell level, not at
> the
> > > > field
> > > > > > level, which seems to be redundant to me.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Vova, do you agree?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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