On 09/21/2016 12:50 PM, Sela, Guy wrote: > Are there any plans in changing/supporting RxJava API in MD-SAL? > > Chaining multiple ListenableFutures and manipulating data between them > is a common task in ODL (At least from what I’ve seen in the > OpenFlow/MD-SAL code), and working with RxJava might be better for these > types of tasks.
No current plans, as far as I know. After a very brief survey, this would really mean adopting either Reactive Streams APIs directly or waiting for JDK9 (http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Flow.html). The other part would be to provide bindings to composition libraries -- akka-streams and rxjava being the obvious ones. While the concepts are alluring and part of me wants to jump at it straightaway, I personally think we need to do some house-cleaning before we embark on this project -- which I think will be far from trivial (unless integrated on top of current APIs, which may be challenging). The reason for that is that we still have not completed API and user migration after the MD-SAL split -- which means reasoning about what breaks whom and how is becoming extremely difficult. Cleaning up first will provide the benefit of having a very clear picture of what needs to happen as well as significantly lowering confusion about what is available and what not. Bye, Robert
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ controller-dev mailing list controller-dev@lists.opendaylight.org https://lists.opendaylight.org/mailman/listinfo/controller-dev
