On Thu 2013-06-13 21:33, Hardy Ferentschik wrote: > > >> Right, that's what I am also trying to see/find. > > > > Sorry, I got confused by your question initially. The query language is not > > for an > > end-user, it is for developers or machines. > > So why would a developer use it? One point of the DSL was to have type safe > queries and now we want > him to write JSON strings? Also, what is the result of the query? Entities in > JSON format? > > I just don't see when a developer would like to use this query format. Maybe > for prototyping or ad hoc experimenting > with some queries. How much easier is that, however, compared to a simple > unit test?
In this case, that would be an alternative query language supported by Infinispan over HotRod. > > JSON here was used as an example of serializable format. The problem I > > was trying to address is to serialize the query in a platform agnostic > > way. > > Why not use Avro again? That's how we serialise the Work instances. Why now > introduce JSON? Sure it could be Avro. Though that makes it harder to open up a console and write an ad-hoc query is Avro's binary format ;) I did pick JSON as an example of an object representation serializable as string and because I've worked on REST + JSON services recently. Emmanuel _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
