Persistence of events as byte array

[alkampfergit]

It would be probably better to handle persistence of events with low level format, such as byte[], but support a pipeline where the user can inject stages if needed (es. serialization, upgrading events, etc).

[mauroservienti]

• may I ask why?
• and better compared to what?

[alkampfergit]

Instead of persisting Serialized object, it is related to Slack discussion, the long list of pain point from Damian, point 6. I'll report here for completeness.

1. Pure OO api abstracts data to far away from the user. In comparision, EventStores byte[] based API may be too low level. I want (and I want people to want) to work with events as data . Having them expressed as objects should only be a convenience.

Byte[] can be too low level, but it could be nice to have a pipeline and letting the user choose format for their Events.

[mauroservienti]

+1, got it. Thanks

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Gian Maria [email protected] wrote:

Instead of persisting Serialized object, it is related to Slack
discussion, the long list of pain point from Damian, point 6. I'll report
here for completeness.

1. Pure OO api abstracts data to far away from the user. In
   comparision, EventStores byte[] based API may be too low level. I want (and
   I want people to want) to work with events as data . Having them
   expressed as objects should only be a convenience.

Byte[] can be too low level, but it could be nice to have a pipeline and
letting the user choose format for their Events.

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[andreabalducci]

this way we can handle better upgrading / transformation because we are not forced to rely on class serialization (easy to broke).

With opaque serialization in place we can configure any pipeline

  Commit => byte[]
  Commit => plain text => byte[]
  Commit => Json => byte[]
  Commit => Json => Zip => Crypt =>  byte[]

We could add as a contrib project a simple denormalizer to write recombined streams (read model for the consumers)