grpc-java/grpclb
Kun Zhang 418d52d16d core: unify EquivalentAddressGroup and its immitators. (#2755)
Resolves #2716

- Add attributes to EquivalentAddressGroup
- Deprecate ResolvedServerInfoGroup by EquivalentAddressGroup
- Deprecate ResolvedServerInfo, because attributes for a single address
  with an address group is not found to be useful.
- The changes on the NameResolver and LoadBalancer interfaces are backward-compatible
  in the next release, with which implementors can switch to the new API smoothly.

As a related change, redefine the semantics of DnsNameResolver and
RoundRobinLoadBalancer:

- Before: DnsNameResolver returns all addresses in one address group.
  RoundRobinLoadBalancer ignores the grouping of addresses and
  round-robin on every single addresses.  It doesn't work well with the
  one-server-multiple-address setup, e.g., both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  are returned for a single serve, even if they are put in the same
  address group by the NameResolver.

- After: DnsNameResolver returns every address in its own
  EAG. RoundRobinLoadBalancer takes an EAG as a whole, and only
  round-robin on the list of EAGs. The new behavior is a better
  interpretation of the EAGs, and really allows the case where one
  server has more than one addresses (e.g., IPv4 and IPv6).

This change will affect users that use custom LoadBalancer with the
stock DnsNameResolver, and those who use custom NameResolver with the
stock RoundRobinLoadBalancer.

Users who use both the stock DnsNameResolver and RoundRobinLoadBalancer
or PickFirstBalancer will see no behavioral change. Because they will
still round-robin on individual addresses from DNS, or do pick-first on
all addresses from DNS (PickFirstBalancer flattens all addresses).

The result is a simpler API and reduction of boilderplates.
2017-03-22 18:29:31 -07:00
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src core: unify EquivalentAddressGroup and its immitators. (#2755) 2017-03-22 18:29:31 -07:00
build.gradle grpclb: set LB tokens to headers. (#2812) 2017-03-10 16:34:33 -08:00