Nikolay, I think this behavior should be opt-in - let's add a flag to BinaryConfiguration. Registering every .NET type as a Java type can lead to typeId collisions and break existing user code, so we can't enable this by default.
Ignite stores typeId -> className mappings separately for Java and .NET [1]. Separate maps were introduced because C# and Java have different naming conventions, typically you have org.foo.bar.Person in Java and Foo.Bar.Person in .NET, so we allow the users to map two different type names to the same typeId with a custom name or id mapper. This proposal says we should always put Foo.Bar.Person from .NET to the Java mapping, in the hope that there is a class with that name in Java, which is a very rare use case. [1] org.apache.ignite.internal.MarshallerContextImpl#registerClassName(byte, int, java.lang.String, boolean) On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:56 PM Nikolay Izhikov <nizhi...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello, Igniters. > > Currently, in case of usage .Net platform client it’s required for the > user to explicitly register each custom type. > > ``` > _marsh = new Marshaller(new BinaryConfiguration > { > TypeConfigurations = new List<BinaryTypeConfiguration> > { > new BinaryTypeConfiguration(typeof (Address)), > new BinaryTypeConfiguration(typeof (TestModel)) > } > }); > ``` > > Note, we have a special public interface to map java type to .net types - > `IBinaryNameMapper` > > ``` > public interface IBinaryNameMapper > { > string GetTypeName(string name); > string GetFieldName(string name); > } > } > ``` > > Users found this approach annoying and not convenient. > So, recently we made a several improvements for the Service API to > implicitly register each custom type from service method arguments. [1], > [2], [3] > For now, user can just call Java service from .Net without any additional > configuration in case FQN NameMapper used. > > I propose to extends approach with the implicit binary type registration > to all APIs and prepare PR for it [4]. > > What do you think? > > [1] > https://github.com/apache/ignite/commit/35f551c023a12b3570d65c803d10c89480f7d5e4 > [2] > https://github.com/apache/ignite/commit/6d02e32e7f049e4f78f7abd37f4ff91d77f738c2 > [3] > https://github.com/apache/ignite/commit/c2204cda29e70294cc93756eabc844b64e07a42e > [4] https://github.com/apache/ignite/pull/8635