I've seen one or two instances of bit-rot in the avro CassandraServer, and I suspect there are probably others. It doesn't get first-class testing status, so I suspect it will be buggy unless it gets more usage by others.
One other aspect is there is a fair amount of code baggage that needs to be maintained to convert between some thrirft and avro structures for the schema updates. A lot of that would go away if avro did, which would give me some gratification. Gary. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:00, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: > > So, Avro RPC. Is anyone using this? Is there anyone interested in > seeing it maintained? > > I'm concentrating on CQL[1][2], which for me will culminate in the > creation of a new, application-specific transport, one that doesn't use > either of the frameworks. To me, the existing RPC framework is just > something to piggy-back on until things are otherwise working, and I'm > starting to think Thrift might be a better piggy here (read: it has more > momentum). > > TTBMK, the Avro RPC interface seems to be "mostly" working at present, > but it's already looking a bit like the proverbial red headed stepchild. > Or am I wrong and there are people who care deeply about this? > > > [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.devel/2370 > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1703 > > -- > Eric Evans > eev...@rackspace.com > >
