On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Manik Surtani <msurt...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Tombstones as well as external versioning - something Hibernate 2LC has 
> needed for a while (and Max doesn't ever stop bugging me about!)
> 
> Re: the serialisability, how about this: why make Metadata in interface?  Why 
> not a concrete class, with a fixed set of attributes (lifespan, maxIdle, 
> Version (interface), etc).  Then we ship an externalizer for this Metadata 
> class.

^ That's certainly an option, but it's gotta be extensible (and retrievable), 
so that server's can build on top of it. For example, REST server might wanna 
add MIME info on top of it. It's got to be able to extend Metadata concrete 
class, so that it can be passed in (and of course, be able to retrieve it 
back), and this is more akward with concrete classes as opposed to interfaces.

> 
> - M
> 
> On 8 Apr 2013, at 13:52, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@infinispan.org> wrote:
> 
>> Got it, thanks!
>> +1 especially as it helps bringing tombstones, an urgent feature IMHO.
>> 
>> Sanne
>> 
>> On 8 April 2013 13:11, Galder Zamarreño <gal...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@infinispan.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I fail to understand the purpose of the feature then. What prevents me
>>>> to use the existing code today just storing some extra fields in my
>>>> custom values?
>>> 
>>> ^ Nothing, this is doable.
>>> 
>>>> What do we get by adding this code?
>>> 
>>> ^ You avoid the need of the wrapper since we already have a wrapper 
>>> internally, which is ICE. ICEs can already keep versions around, why do I 
>>> need a wrapper class that stores a version for Hot Rod server?
>>> 
>>> Down the line, we could decide to leave the metadata around to better 
>>> support use cases like this:
>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-506
>>> https://community.jboss.org/wiki/VersioningDesignDocument - The tombstones 
>>> that Max refers to could potentially be tombstone ICEs with only metadata 
>>> info.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sanne
>>>> 
>>>> On 8 April 2013 12:40, Galder Zamarreño <gal...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@infinispan.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 8 April 2013 12:06, Galder Zamarreño <gal...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@infinispan.org> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 8 April 2013 11:44, Galder Zamarreño <gal...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Galder Zamarreño <gal...@redhat.com> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Manik Surtani <msurt...@redhat.com> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> All sounds very good. One important thing to consider is that the 
>>>>>>>>>> reference to Metadata passed in by the client app will be tied to 
>>>>>>>>>> the ICE for the entire lifespan of the ICE.  You'll need to think 
>>>>>>>>>> about a defensive copy or some other form of making the Metadata 
>>>>>>>>>> immutable (by the user application, at least) the moment it is 
>>>>>>>>>> passed in.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> ^ Excellent point, it could be a nightmare if users could change the 
>>>>>>>>> metadata reference by the ICE at will. I'll have a think on how to 
>>>>>>>>> best achieve this.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ^ The metadata is gonna have to be marshalled somehow to ship to other 
>>>>>>>> nodes, so that could be a way to achieve it, by enforcing this 
>>>>>>>> somehow. When the cache receives it, it can marshaller/unmarshall it 
>>>>>>>> to make a copy
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> One way would be to make Metadata extend Serializable, but not keen on 
>>>>>>>> that. Another would be to somehow force the interface to define the 
>>>>>>>> Externalizer to use (i.e. an interface method like getExternalizer()), 
>>>>>>>> but that's akward when it comes to unmarshalling… what about forcing 
>>>>>>>> the Metadata object to be provided with a @SerializeWith annotation?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Why is getExternalizer() awkward for unmarshalling?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ^ Because you don't have an instance yet, so what's the Externalizer 
>>>>>>> for it? IOW, there's no much point to doing that, simply register it 
>>>>>>> depending on your desire:
>>>>>>> https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Plugging+Infinispan+With+User+Defined+Externalizers
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's what I would expect.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I would expect you to have the marshaller already known during 
>>>>>>>> deserialization.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You would, as long as you follow the instructions in 
>>>>>>> https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Plugging+Infinispan+With+User+Defined+Externalizers
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Agreed that extensing Serializable is not a good idea.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Are you thinking about the impact on CacheStore(s) and state transfer?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ^ What about it in particular?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Eviction of no longer used metadata ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ^ Since the metadata is part of the entry, it'd initially go when the 
>>>>>>> entry is evicted. We might wanna leave it around in some cases… but 
>>>>>>> it'd be for other use cases.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I thought the plan was to have entries refer to the metadata, but that
>>>>>> different entries sharing the same metadata would point to the same
>>>>>> instance.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ^ Could be, but most likely not.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> So this metadata needs to be stored separately in the CacheStore,
>>>>>> preloaded as appropriate, transferred during state transfer,
>>>>>> passivated when convenient and cleaned up when no longer referred to.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ^ Well, it's part of the internal cache entry, so it'd be treated just 
>>>>> like ICE.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Am I wrong? Seems you plan to store a copy of the metadata within each 
>>>>>> ICE.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ^ The idea is to store it alongside right now, but maybe at some point it 
>>>>> might make sense to leave it around (i.e. for 2LC use case), but this 
>>>>> won't be done yet.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm also considering separating the serialization/marshalling concerns 
>>>>>>> from the defensive copying concerns. IOW, add a copy() method to the 
>>>>>>> Metadata interface, or have a separate interface for those externally 
>>>>>>> provided objects that require to be defensive copied. IOW, do something 
>>>>>>> like what Scala Case Classes do with their copy() method, but without 
>>>>>>> the issues of clone… I need to investigate this further to come up with 
>>>>>>> a nice solution.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> One positive side to splitting both concerns is speed. A Metadata 
>>>>>>> implementation might have ways to make a copy of itself which are more 
>>>>>>> efficient than marshalling/unmarshalling.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Sanne
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Any other ideas?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On 8 Apr 2013, at 09:24, Galder Zamarreño <gal...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> As mentioned in 
>>>>>>>>>>> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/infinispan-dev/2013-March/012348.html,
>>>>>>>>>>>  in paralell to the switch to Equivalent* collections, I was also 
>>>>>>>>>>> working on being able to pass metadata into Infinispan caches. This 
>>>>>>>>>>> is done to better support the ability to store custom metadata in 
>>>>>>>>>>> Infinispan without the need of extra wrappers. So, the idea is that 
>>>>>>>>>>> InternalCacheEntry instances will have a a reference to this 
>>>>>>>>>>> Metadata.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> One of that metadata is version, which I've been using as test bed 
>>>>>>>>>>> to see if clients could pass succesfully version information via 
>>>>>>>>>>> metadata. As you already know, Hot Rod requires to store version 
>>>>>>>>>>> information. Before, this was stored in a class called CacheValue 
>>>>>>>>>>> alongside the value itself, but the work I've done in [1], this is 
>>>>>>>>>>> passed via the new API I've added in [2].
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> So, I'd like to get some thoughts on this new API. I hope that with 
>>>>>>>>>>> these new put/replace versions, we can get rid of the nightmare 
>>>>>>>>>>> which is all the other put/replace calls taking lifespan and/or 
>>>>>>>>>>> maxIdle information. In the end, I think there should be two basic 
>>>>>>>>>>> puts:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> - put(K, V)
>>>>>>>>>>> - put(K, V, Metadata)
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> And their equivalents.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> IMPORTANT NOTE 1: The implementation details are bound to change, 
>>>>>>>>>>> because the entire Metadata needs to be stored in 
>>>>>>>>>>> InternalCacheEntry, not just version, lifespan..etc. I'll further 
>>>>>>>>>>> develop the implementation once I get into adding more metadata, 
>>>>>>>>>>> i.e. when working on interoperability with REST. So, don't pay too 
>>>>>>>>>>> much attention to the implementation itself, focus on the 
>>>>>>>>>>> AdvancedCache API itself and let's refine that.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> IMPORTANT NOTE 2: The interoperability work in commit in [1] is 
>>>>>>>>>>> WIP, so please let's avoid discussing it in this email thread. Once 
>>>>>>>>>>> I have a more final version I'll send an email about it.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Apart from working on enhancements to the API, I'm now carry on 
>>>>>>>>>>> tackling the interoperability work with aim to have an initial 
>>>>>>>>>>> version of the Embedded <-> Hot Rod interoperability as first step. 
>>>>>>>>>>> Once that's in, it can be released to get early feedback while the 
>>>>>>>>>>> rest of interoperability modes are developed.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> [1] 
>>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/galderz/infinispan/commit/a35956fe291d2b2dc3b7fa7bf44d8965ffb1a54d
>>>>>>>>>>> [2] 
>>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/galderz/infinispan/commit/a35956fe291d2b2dc3b7fa7bf44d8965ffb1a54d#L10R313
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>> Galder Zamarreño
>>>>>>>>>>> gal...@redhat.com
>>>>>>>>>>> twitter.com/galderz
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Project Lead, Escalante
>>>>>>>>>>> http://escalante.io
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Engineer, Infinispan
>>>>>>>>>>> http://infinispan.org
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>>>>>>>>>> Manik Surtani
>>>>>>>>>> ma...@jboss.org
>>>>>>>>>> twitter.com/maniksurtani
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Platform Architect, JBoss Data Grid
>>>>>>>>>> http://red.ht/data-grid
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>>>>>>>>> gal...@redhat.com
>>>>>>>>> twitter.com/galderz
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Project Lead, Escalante
>>>>>>>>> http://escalante.io
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Engineer, Infinispan
>>>>>>>>> http://infinispan.org
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>>>>>>>> gal...@redhat.com
>>>>>>>> twitter.com/galderz
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