On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:25 PM Bruce Schuchardt <bschucha...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> I'm wondering how we would maintain backward compatibility with this > change? Geode accepts serialized data from a client and keeps it in > serialized form and might transmit this serialized data to an older > version peer or client. An older peer or client wouldn't be able to > handle a new string encoding if it tried to access and deserialize the > data. > While not efficient for long term it would be sufficient for rolling upgrades to have the client/server layer transcode the serialized form for older clients.