you pretty much nailed it on the head. etch can only pass an object it
knows how to serialize.
so it must be defined or primitive. defined can be etch struct or extern.
Manoj Ganesan wrote:
In case of a (distributed) hash table like implementation, it should be
possible to pass into the hash table, a value which is represented by an
Object, any object, just some set of bytes in effect for the service
implementation. If I have such a hash table where method put(string key,
object value) and get(string key) are exposed through etch, it's not
possible to pass arbitrary objects but only primitives and types which I
have explicitly declared in the etch interface definition file. Any time I
try to pass an arbitrary object, the etch validation code throws errors
saying such a type doesn't exist. Obviously, type casting my arbitrary user
object to a java Object doesn't make a difference.
How do I manage to achieve passing arbitrary objects? In case of a
distributed hashtable, which doesn't care about the type of data being
stored, any kind of objects should be able to be passed through to the
server. Is there a way to do this in the current setup?
Manoj
