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Jukka Zitting commented on JCR-3534:
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> well, copying lots of 20MB binaries ? instead of lots of 50 character strings 
> ? Do the math ;-)

I mean the overhead of the extra cluster configuration. Both approaches 
suggested here achieve the reduced data transfer, one at the cost of extra API 
and permissions the other at the cost of deployment changes. The question here 
is which one is the better long term alternative.

> The abstraction already leaked with the JackrabbitValue.getContentIdentitiy 
> method

The case for getContentIdentity() is quite different from this use case, and 
has neither the security concerns nor any reasonable alternatives that wouldn't 
require API changes. Unlike in here, the kinds of use cases enabled with 
getContentIdentity() are impossible, not just inconvenient to configure, 
without the extra API.

                
> Add JackrabbitSession.getValueByContentId method
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JCR-3534
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-3534
>             Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: jackrabbit-api, jackrabbit-core
>    Affects Versions: 2.6
>            Reporter: Felix Meschberger
>         Attachments: JCR-3534.patch
>
>
> we have a couple of use cases, where we would like to leverage the global 
> data store to prevent sending around and copying around large binary data 
> unnecessarily: We have two separate Jackrabbit instances configured to use 
> the same DataStore (for the sake of this discussion assume we have the 
> problems of concurrent access and garbage collection under control). When 
> sending content from one instance to the other instance we don't want to send 
> potentially large binary data (e.g. video files) if not needed.
> The idea is for the sender to just send the content identity from 
> JackrabbitValue.getContentIdentity(). The receiver would then check whether 
> the such content already exists and would reuse if so:
> String ci = contentIdentity_from_sender;
> try {
>     Value v = session.getValueByContentIdentity(ci);
>     Property p = targetNode.setProperty(propName, v);
> } catch (ItemNotFoundException ie) {
>     // unknown or invalid content Identity
> } catch (RepositoryException re) {
>     // some other exception
> }
> Thus the proposed JackrabbitSession.getValueByContentIdentity(String) method 
> would allow for round tripping the JackrabbitValue.getContentIdentity() 
> preventing superfluous binary data copying and moving. 
> See also the dev@ thread 
> http://jackrabbit.markmail.org/thread/gedk5jsrp6offkhi

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