[rabbitmq-discuss] method-like calls

[Jim Irrer]

Thrift looks pretty good, but it does not seem to support one-way messages.
All are implemented as if they were using a server-client model, and we will
have some relationships that are one way (fire off a message and forget
about it).

I was able to fake out Thrift by creating my own null protocol and
transport, and
that would be ok, but it requires writing code for each platform, and if
there is
a niftier way to do this I would like to know.

Thanks,

- Jim

Jim Irrer     irrer at umich.edu       (734) 647-4409
University of Michigan Hospital Radiation Oncology
519 W. William St.             Ann Arbor, MI 48103


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Garrett Smith <g at rre.tt> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Michael Greene<michael.greene at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > We currently use Apache Thrift for this, and have had success with it
> over
> > the past year of use.
>
> I'd second this.
>
> There is some release management overhead in using Thrift or Protobuf,
> so I'd also consider using JSON for the message payload. If your
> schema changes a lot and you don't have massive throughput
> requirements, I'd lean toward JSON just for its flexibility and solid
> language support.
>
> IIRC, we showed that JSON in Python was over 20x slower than Thrift at
> encoding/decoding for messages that were basically hash maps (~10
> fields, 512K total size). But unless your performance requirements are
> unusually demanding, I wouldn't worry too much about this.
>
> Garrett
>
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