[akka-user] How do you browse contents of your akka-persistence journals?

2015-04-25 Thread Magnus Andersson
Hi I'm looking for advice/experiences for browsing and maintaining the journals akka-persistence writes. The events are serialized as binary blobs of whatever serialization mechanism akka is configured to use. The journals are not human readable (it is possible to with some detective work, but

Re: [akka-user] How do you browse contents of your akka-persistence journals?

2015-04-27 Thread Konrad Malawski
Hi Magnus, the answer to this question is very journal dependent. It's up to the Journal to pick how to serialize your messages. If a journal picks to serialize in human-readable formats you'd get that. For example in a database like mongo you could just pick a JSON serializer to put it into the d

Re: [akka-user] How do you browse contents of your akka-persistence journals?

2015-04-27 Thread Magnus Andersson
Hi Konrad I was the one who asked that question. :) As you say there is a possibility to hook up persistent views to a tool you build. Akka analytics and spark sounds intetesting as suggested in the github thread. Anyhow, it is an important piece of the tooling puzzle to be able to view journale

Re: [akka-user] How do you browse contents of your akka-persistence journals?

2015-04-28 Thread delasoul
There was discusion about this also for the mongo plugin: https://github.com/ironfish/akka-persistence-mongo/issues/88 michael On Monday, 27 April 2015 18:12:50 UTC+2, Magnus Andersson wrote: > > Hi Konrad > > I was the one who asked that question. :) > > As you say there is a possibility to hoo

Re: [akka-user] How do you browse contents of your akka-persistence journals?

2015-04-28 Thread Magnus Andersson
Michael: Thanks. Interesting. To me it looks like the most general solution would be a tool that could leverage the existing akka persistent views and use the configured (de)serialization and get case classes and display those in an UI. Have not yet done a deep dive into spark so that could als