Hello!
For me it sounds like something we would like to do in 3.0 (if indeed it
will have arrays as possible value (or key) type), but doing it in 2.x
raises concerns whether it has enough time left to stabilize.
Also, I think making it default "true" is a breaking change and is not
possible in a minor release, case in point,
IGNITE_BINARY_SORT_OBJECT_FIELDS is still waiting for 3.0 and it is less
destructive.
Of course I would also like to hear what other community members think.
Regards,
--
Ilya Kasnacheev
пт, 30 апр. 2021 г. в 17:16, Nikolay Izhikov <nizhi...@apache.org>:
> Igniters,
>
> Want to clarify my proposal about new array store format.
> I think we should store array in special binary wrapper that will keep
> original component type
>
> ```
> public class BinaryArrayWrapper implements BinaryObjectEx, Externalizable {
> /** Type ID. */
> private int compTypeId;
>
> /** Raw data. */
> private String compClsName;
>
> /** Value. */
> private Object[] arr;
>
> // Further implementation.
> }
> ```
>
>
> > 30 апр. 2021 г., в 16:31, Nikolay Izhikov <nizhikov....@gmail.com>
> написал(а):
> >
> > Hello, Igniters.
> >
> > Currently, binary marshaller works as follows(Say, we have a class
> `User` then):
> >
> > IgniteBinary#toBinary(User)` -> BinaryObject
> > IgniteBinary#toBinary(User[])` -> Object[]
> > IgniteBinary#toBinary(Object[])` -> Object[]
> >
> > This means, that we lose array component type information during binary
> serialization.
> > AFAIK, it’s a design choice made during binary infrastructure
> development.
> >
> > This lead to the following disadvantages:
> >
> > 1. `IgniteBinary` can’t be used as a universal SerDe mechanism.
> > 2. Ignite internals(service grid, .Net calls) contains many tweaks and
> hacks to deal with custom user array and still has many issues [1]
> >
> > I propose to make breaking changes and fix the custom user array SeDe as
> follows:
> >
> > 1. Implement binary serialization that correctly Ser and Deser
> array using some kind of the wrapper (BinaryArrayWrapper).
> >
> > IgniteBinary#toBinary(User)` -> BinaryObject
> > IgniteBinary#toBinary(User[])` -> BinaryObject
> > IgniteBinary#toBinary(Object[])` -> BinaryObject
> >
> > 2. Introduce system flag `IGNITE_USE_BINARY_ARRAY` that enables
> correct SerDe of arrays. The default value is false to keep backward
> compatibility in the next Ignite release(2.11).
> >
> > 3. Set `IGNITE_USE_BINARY_ARRAY` to `true` in the ongoing Ignite
> releases (2.12).
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-14299
>
>
