Hi Igniters!
I met a couple of issues related to different binary string encoding
settings on different cluster nodes.
Let cluster has two nodes. Node0 uses win-1251 to marshal strings with
BinaryMarshaller and Node1 uses default utf-8 encoding. Let's create
replicated cache and add some entry to Node0:
node0.cache("myCache").put("k", "v");
Then
node1.cache("myCache").get("k")
returns null.
Let me describe the cause. First, string key comes to Node1 as binary
payload of DHT update request, it has win-1251 encoding. This
representation stays in offheap area of Node1. Then GetTask comes with the
same key, plain (Serializable) Java object; BinaryMarshaller encodes the
key using utf-8 (Node1 setting). Finally, B+Tree lookup fails for this
binary key due to different encodings.
When the key is just a string then this can be fixed by decoding binary
strings entirely on B+Tree lookups. But when the key is an arbitrary object
with some strings inside this way is too expensive.
The second issue relates to lossy string encodings. Mixed-encoding cluster
does not guarantee string data integrity when "lossless" node goes down for
a while.
Any ideas on addressing these issues?
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Best regards,
Andrey Kuznetsov.
