On 14 Dec 2012, at 13:56, Tristan Tarrant <ttarr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Let's think about data typing: "a string is a string is a string", and not > some weirdly marshalled byte array (which may be influenced by Marshaller, > protocol value wrapper, phase of the moon, etc). Protocols would say "this is > a string" (e.g. REST via Content-type: text/plain, InVM by just storing a > java.lang.String) and the server would store it in an "as-native-as-possible" > format, recording the type along with it. When someone retrieves it it needs > to be translated to something the client understands. Obviously if I'm going > to have a Cache of Strings, that metadata would be "global" to the cache and > entries would not have that information. > > Was this ever planned ? Canned ? Banned ? Never planned. But makes plenty of sense. We should discuss this as a part of ISPN-2281, which addresses format portability. -- Manik Surtani ma...@jboss.org twitter.com/maniksurtani Platform Architect, JBoss Data Grid http://red.ht/data-grid
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