{"id":20,"date":"2013-10-21T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianroach.info\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-10-21T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:37:00","slug":"building-a-better-mousetrap-client-development-with-netty-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianroach.info\/blog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Building a better mousetrap; client development with Netty 4."},"content":{"rendered":"

Many developers these days don’t have to write a client library\/driver from scratch or ever have to Just Open A Socket<\/a>. Normally, they’re going to use an HTTP client or a driver\/library provided by the database\/whatever. I happen to be the exception; my job at the moment revolves entirely around creating those drivers for Riak.<\/p>\n

I’m probably the Worst Java Guy Evar in that … I’m not a Java guy. At least, not what you think of when you hear “Java guy”. I’m a polyglot forged with C who happened to have fallen into doing some Java dev once and then at Basho became … the Java guy. \u00a0In short, I’m not a big fan of including a giant framework in a project to do some stupid simple task. Or shoehorning problems into design patterns because … reasons. I also have a tendency to want to hit something every time I hear the word “Spring”.<\/p>\n

That said, when designing the new Java client for Riak<\/a>, rather than writing the networky bits myself I thought maybe I’d take a look at Netty<\/a>. I’d heard good things about it and thought maybe it’d be a good fit if wasn’t overly cumbersome. We (Basho) also had some customer interest in providing async query functionality in the client which I knew Netty could provide. \u00a0In addition … lets face it, there’s nothing enjoyable about writing socket code for the umpteenth time.<\/p>\n

After playing with the Netty 4 for a bit I decided on using it for the new Riak client. Not only did it provide what we needed, I found Norman Maurer<\/a>\u00a0at Redhat to be incredibly helpful and a real advocate for what they were developing.<\/p>\n

The internals of the new Riak Java client effectively will model a Riak cluster, providing load balancing and fail-over support. It also allows for both synchronous and asynchronous operations. The higher level client API will submit tasks to it and receive the replies.<\/p>\n

\"RJC2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Over the next couple weeks I’ll be posting a series of articles talking about how to use Netty to build a network client library. First one coming soon.<\/p>\n

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