Java Serialization of Exceptions

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Berry
Greetings, Let me say up-front, I am a huge fan and proponent of Elasticsearch. It is a beautiful tool. So, that said, it surprises me that Elasticsearch has such a pedestrian flaw, and serializes it's Exceptions using Java Serialization. In a big shop it is quite difficult (i.e. next

Re: Java Serialization of Exceptions

2014-03-21 Thread joergpra...@gmail.com
, Chris Berry chriswbe...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Let me say up-front, I am a huge fan and proponent of Elasticsearch. It is a beautiful tool. So, that said, it surprises me that Elasticsearch has such a pedestrian flaw, and serializes it's Exceptions using Java Serialization. In a big shop

Re: Java Serialization of Exceptions

2014-03-21 Thread kimchy
-front, I am a huge fan and proponent of Elasticsearch. It is a beautiful tool. So, that said, it surprises me that Elasticsearch has such a pedestrian flaw, and serializes it's Exceptions using Java Serialization. In a big shop it is quite difficult (i.e. next to impossible) to keep all

Re: Java Serialization of Exceptions

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Berry
. It is a beautiful tool. So, that said, it surprises me that Elasticsearch has such a pedestrian flaw, and serializes it's Exceptions using Java Serialization. In a big shop it is quite difficult (i.e. next to impossible) to keep all the ES Clients on the same exact JVM as Elasticsearch, and thus

Re: Java Serialization of Exceptions

2014-03-21 Thread kimchy
tool. So, that said, it surprises me that Elasticsearch has such a pedestrian flaw, and serializes it's Exceptions using Java Serialization. In a big shop it is quite difficult (i.e. next to impossible) to keep all the ES Clients on the same exact JVM as Elasticsearch, and thus

Re: Java Serialization of Exceptions

2014-03-21 Thread Matt Weber
such a pedestrian flaw, and serializes it's Exceptions using Java Serialization. In a big shop it is quite difficult (i.e. next to impossible) to keep all the ES Clients on the same exact JVM as Elasticsearch, and thus, it is not uncommon to get TransportSerializationExceptions instead of the actual

Re: Java Serialization of Exceptions

2014-03-21 Thread joergpra...@gmail.com
using Java Serialization. In a big shop it is quite difficult (i.e. next to impossible) to keep all the ES Clients on the same exact JVM as Elasticsearch, and thus, it is not uncommon to get TransportSerializationExceptions instead of the actual underlying problem. I was really hoping this would

Re: Java Serialization of Exceptions

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Berry
+1, Chris Berry wrote: Greetings, Let me say up-front, I am a huge fan and proponent of Elasticsearch. It is a beautiful tool. So, that said, it surprises me that Elasticsearch has such a pedestrian flaw, and serializes it's Exceptions using Java Serialization. In a big shop it is quite