A couple things I'd like to see:
1) completely new API that doesn't reuse the old API classes (or at least
not the giant classes such as Cache and Region interfaces)
2) separation of API and Impl so that users can compile their code against
a dedicated client API jar
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Fred Krone <fkr...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> In an effort to improve Java developer ease of use for caching with Geode I
> am looking for feedback on going forward with creating a Java client. This
> client will allow for server-side region creation and distributed data
> caching. This would allow for a thin client that fits with microservice
> caching patterns and also abstracts a cleaner client-server experience
> driven interface.
>
> Initially we were going to update the Region interface but were concerned
> with breaking existing applications. We also would like to provide Region
> creation to a client application and so propose here solving both of these
> areas with a Java client.
>
> It would have new project repo for the client.
>
> It would provide new Region interface for clients. The specifics of the
> API design are too lengthy for this conversation but implementation will
> resemble JSR 107 Cache interface.
>
> It would use the new security framework.
>
>
> *An example*,
>
> The client application simply creates an instance of client and points it
> to the locator:
>
>
> org.apache.geode.client.Client client = Client.create(locatorHost,
> locatorPort);
>
>
> Client has the following methods:
>
> package org.apache.geode.client;
>
>
> public interface GeodeClient {
>
> /**
>
> * creates the region on the servers, or gets the region if it exits,
> returns a PROXY region
>
> */
>
> public Region getOrCreateRegion(RegionAttributes attributes, String
> name);
>
>
> /**
>
> * Returns a PROXY region if the region exists on the server
>
> */
>
> public Region getRegion(String name);
>
>
>
>
>
>
> MVP
>
> The smallest set of features to test this idea, learn and iterate, and get
> the client into the communities hands for future iterations is:
>
>
> Create a server side Region from a client
>
> Region interface has CRUD on par with javax.cache.Cache (from JSR 107)
>
> Calls are asynchronous -- futures
>
>
>
> Also would like feedback on which future functionality would be most useful
> from a thin client:
>
> Function execution
>
> Durable clients
>
> User defined serialization
>
> Register interest
>
> Queries
>
> CQ
>
> Near side caching
>
> Create disk stores from client
>
> Region group membership
>
> Client subscription load balancing
> Transactions
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Fred
>
