[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-2478) Custom CQL protocol/transport

["Christoph Hack (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christoph Hack commented on CASSANDRA-2478:
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I would really appreciate a such a custom protocol since I would like to write a Go client.

Go seems to be a bad fit for Thrift since the language and API is improving steadily (which isn't a problem for Go programs, since there is a tool called "gofix" which is able to rewrite existing code), but updating the code-generator for Thrift all the time is not practical. Also, I do not want to contribute to Thrift at the moment and writing a generator to generate non-idiomatic code instead of writing a nice API in the first place (without huge amounts of duplicated generated code) seems like the better solution for me (but that's just my personal preference).

I know, this feature was just proposed recently, but is it likely that it might be implemented in the near future?
                
> Custom CQL protocol/transport
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2478
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2478
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: API, Core
>            Reporter: Eric Evans
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: cql
>
> A custom wire protocol would give us the flexibility to optimize for our specific use-cases, and eliminate a troublesome dependency (I'm referring to Thrift, but none of the others would be significantly better).  Additionally, RPC is bad fit here, and we'd do better to move in the direction of something that natively supports streaming.
> I don't think this is as daunting as it might seem initially.  Utilizing an existing server framework like Netty, combined with some copy-and-paste of bits from other FLOSS projects would probably get us 80% of the way there.

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