Hello everybody!

If you look at the stackTrace, the error is that deserialized objects are being 
sent to listeners.
It may be more correct to send a raw arrays of bytes, and each plugin will be 
able to process it if needed.


18.12.2020, 12:18, "Nikolay Izhikov" <nizhi...@apache.org>:
> Hello, Denis.
>
> It’s a known issue for me.
> Metastore is a private API, isn’t it?
> AFAICU it can occur for two reasons:
>
> * User migrates from custom Ignite fork that has private improvements or 
> plugins that write to the metastore.
> * We have a blocker bug and just remove some internal class that can be 
> written into metastore from distribution.
>
> I planned to fix it with some system flag.
> During startup administrator just sets a list of the metastore items that 
> should be ignored.
> Please, take a look at the PR [1]
>
> WDYT?
>
>>  it’s better to limit the metastorage with storing primitives only
>
> I think that ability to write object is very useful and should stay.
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/ignite/pull/8221
>
>>  18 дек. 2020 г., в 12:06, Mekhanikov Denis <dmekhani...@gmail.com> 
>> написал(а):
>>
>>  Hi everyone!
>>
>>  Ignite has a limitation that it can’t work with custom classes put into 
>> metastorage: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-13642
>>  If you put a POJO into the metastorage, then Ignite will try to deserialize 
>> it using the classes it finds on the classpath. If it can’t do the 
>> deserialization, then the node will fail.
>>
>>  There is an opinion that the metastorage wasn’t design for a case when 
>> classes that can disappear from Ignite distribution.
>>  If we follow this path, then it’s better to limit the metastorage with 
>> storing primitives only, so that it’s impossible to occasionally put 
>> anything breaking.
>>  If a piece of configuration is put into the metastorage by a plugin, then 
>> the plugin will be in charge of deserializing the configuration, and not 
>> Ignite.
>>
>>  Alternatively we can try to fix the metastorage and make it ignore 
>> deserialization errors when they occur.
>>
>>  What do you think?
>>
>>  Denis

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