The org.apache.geode.cache.execute
package provides APIs used
for function execution on gemfire system members.
GemFire's Function Execution Service supports execution of user-defined methods on targeted GemFire system members.
The fundamental premise is to route the function transparently to the GemFire system member that hosts the
data subset required by the application function and avoid moving data around on the network.
Application function can be executed on just one fabric node, executed in parallel on a subset
of nodes or in parallel across all the nodes.
The Function Execution Service API is based on the following classes and interfaces which work together to provide the function execution capability. The API allows execution of functions that are "data dependent" or "data independent". Data dependent functions are functions that need access to the local data set, on the targeted member.
Example of a "data dependent" execution using the Function Execution Service
Region region; Set keySet = Collections.singleton("myKey"); Function multiGetFunction; Object args; ResultCollector rc = FunctionService.onRegion(region) .setArguments(args) .withFilter(keySet) .withCollector(new MyCustomResultCollector()) .execute(multiGetFunction.getId()); // Application can do something else here before retrieving the result // It can even get deal with partial results which it will get in // MyCustomResultCollector.addResult(). Object functionResult = rc.getResult();
Example of a Function execution on a set of regions
Region region1, region2, region3; Set s = new HashSet(); s.add(region1); s.add(region2); s.add(region3); Function multiGetFunction; Object args; ResultCollector rc = FunctionService.onRegions(s) .setArguments(args) .withCollector(new MyCustomResultCollector()) .execute(multiGetFunction.getId()); // Application can get the handle of all the regions at the node it is executing on. // This way it can get the handle of data in an efficient way. Object functionResult = rc.getResult();
Example of a "data independent" execution using the Function Execution Service
DistributedSystem ds; Function memberSetupFunction; Object args; ResultCollector rc = FunctionService.onMembers(ds) .setArguments(args) .execute(memberSetupFunction.getId()); //Application can do something else here before retrieving the result Object functionResult = rc.getResult();
Example of a "Function" to be executed which sends result to ResultCollector using ResultSender.
public class MYFunction extends FunctionAdapter { public void execute(FunctionContext context) { for(int i =0 ;i< 10; i++) context.getResultSender().sendResult(i); context.getResultSender.lastResult(10); } public String getId() { return "MYFunction"; } public boolean hasResult() { return true; } }
Some scenarios where function execution can be useful: