On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Bruce Schuchardt <bschucha...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> I agree that key/value serialization is a separate issue and more related > to storage than communications. The thing I'm struggling with is how to > specify message metadata in an RPC IDL. I'm thinking of things like an > eventID, transaction info, security principal, etc. The basic > client/server messaging doesn't need to know the details of this > information - just that it exists and maybe the ID of each piece of > metadata. > Is there any reason that this data couldn't be packed into, say, Thrift types? It's all numbers, right?
