Sending binaries over relations

[José Antonio Rey]

Hey,

One of the options would be to cat the file as a string and pass that
string over the connection, finally echoing that string to foo.binary.

What do others think?

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José Antonio Rey

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 08:25 Merlijn Sebrechts <merlijn.sebrechts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> I have a question I'd like to discuss, if you guys aren't to busy prepping
> for Ubucon.. :)
>
> I've found a number of Java projects where, in order to communicate for
> example with Kafka, they require the Kafka Java libraries for that specific
> version. For the moment, I solve this by downloading the libraries from a
> deployed Kafka installation and include them in the Charm. However, this
> has the disadvantage that everytime the Kafka charm version changes, I have
> to update the libraries in all the charms that connect to Kafka. It would
> be better if there was a way to send these libraries over the connection.
> This way, a Charm that can connect to one version of Kafka has a very high
> chance of being able to connect to the next version.
>
> So my question is: Is there a way to send large binary files between
> Charms? Or is this problem better solved by using a subordinate
> kafka-plugin Charm like the Hadoop Charms do?
>
>
>
> Kind regards
> Merlijn Sebrechts
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