Thin Client protocol (coming in 2.4) is a faster and more feature-rich binary alternative to REST. It supports arbitrary objects as well. See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IGNITE/IEP-9+Thin+Client+Protocol .
For now you can try nightly builds or build Ignite from sources. Thanks, Pavel On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Alexey Kukushkin <kukushkinale...@gmail.com > wrote: > I quickly looked at ignite REST implementation and it seems you can only > use it to add string keys and values only. You might contact Ignite > developers on the DEV list and ask to extend REST API to support keys and > values of arbitrary types. >
