My vote would be to keep it as is: 1. It's going to be replaced anyway. 2. we've been living with this flaw(extension modules has to use an internal api) since day one, might as well live with it for a little longer before we replace it with a more preferred api.
but I can be convinced otherwise. On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Patrick Rhomberg <prhomb...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello, all! > > I was in the process of writing a Wiki entry [1] on my experience in > using the experimental cluster configuration API. While making an explicit > distinction between the configuration class and any object(s) that > configuration class would create, I discovered that the Extension interface > is as yet internal. > We have been iterating on making the configuration of the cluster in > general more programmatically accessible. See [2] for the ongoing > proposal, which will itself likely see much revision. > The scope of this configuration API and associated refactoring has left > the underlying use of XML in place, to be removed in future efforts. In > the interim, however, any developer wishing to create a persisted element > using our experimental configuration API will also need to implement these > XML aspects of their persisted objects. > To formalize this, I would like to publicize the Extension interface, as > well as the related class ExtensionPoint. > As iteration continues with respect to the configuration persistence > service, it is very likely that the current structure of ExtensionPoints on > the Region and Cache will be migrated to be handled by this or another > service. However, the Extension interface will remain useful after this > fact. > On the one hand, it feels awkward to publicize an API that we know will > not long survive the current iteration efforts. On the other hand, it > feels fundamentally abhorrent to encourage a third-party developer to use > an internal API. > Thoughts? > > Imagination is Change. > ~Patrick Rhomberg. > > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Extend > ing+Geode+-+Creating+Custom%2C+Persisted+Cache+Configuration+Elements > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage. > action?pageId=75975896 > -- Cheers Jinmei
