Perhaps configurable, then? XDR is a pain in the ass to debug. I was considering going with JSON or BSON initially.
--dho 2014/1/15 Dave Rawks <d...@pandora.com>: > On 01/15/2014 06:42 AM, Jesse Becker wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Nicholas Satterly <nfsatte...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> If we are to look at redoing the XML parsing next then the two contenders >>> that come to mind are gzipped JSON and Google Protocol Buffers. >>> >>> PB is meant to be very efficient and therefore faster, however it seems >>> people have gotten comparable results with gzipped JSON. An obvious >>> advantage of gzipped JSON is that it would be simple to make the output >>> human readable though we could easily develop a CLI tool that allowed us to >>> query and decode ganglia PB data for testing. >> >> I think there are large advantages to using standard and widely >> adopted formats, so JSON gets my vote there. That's not to say PB >> isn't widely used, but I suspect there are a lot more tools and >> programming language bindings to read and process JSON data. >> >> Or...why not just use XDR for bulk data transport, instead of >> introducing a third format (XML, XDR, and JSON/PB)? I'm not hugely >> familiar with XDR, so apologies if I'm missing an obvious reason why >> it wouldn't work here. >> >> >> > > > +1 vote for XDR, it works great it is pretty damned efficient and the > code to use it is ubiquitous. > > -Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-developers mailing list > Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
