I agree with Yakov. Having an integer as region ID should be sufficient to support all the use cases.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:37 AM, Yakov Zhdanov <yzhda...@apache.org> wrote: > Alexander, as far as I remember we talked about having cluster id set via > TcpDiscoverySpi configuration and also via system property. > > What do you mean by "existence of sufficient comparator"? If we require > that attribute is integer then we don't have any problems. If it is not > integer then you should throw exception on start. > > I repeat this once again - we need to (1)prevent our users from falling > into terrible discovery issues (which are hard to debug) if users provide > inconsistent comparators on different nodes, but we also need to have > (2)full flexibility and control over nodes ordering. I think if we don't > have comparator on public API then we are still OK with both points above. > Therefore, I would like you to implement this feature using the approach we > agreed on before. Let me know if you want me to take a look at the code > before you proceed. > > --Yakov >