Selecting cache members for remote execution

[hazelcast]

Please provide easier way to select members where particular distributed task can be executed.

Currently members can be selected only by addresses/ports, which is "too dynamic" to configure externally.

Adding additional field to Member class (description field, something similar like isSuperClient()) would make filtering easier. Another option would be to enable/disable particular execution services in member configuration.

Migrated from http://code.google.com/p/hazelcast/issues/detail?id=396

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earlier comments

andrewkornev@hotmail.com said, at 2011-01-03T19:41:47.000Z:

I second that! Near term, you could allow applications to assign an arbitrary name to a node (as part of node configuration maybe) and make the name visible to other grid nodes via Member.getName(). This would make it easier for applications to select specific nodes for task execution.

[ferhatsb]

Is this issue still valid ?

As far as I understand from documentation http://www.hazelcast.com/docs/2.3/manual/single_html/#ExecutorService
there are several ways to choose members to execute tasks.

• on a specific cluster member you choose.
• on the member owning the key you choose.
• on the member Hazelcast will pick.
• on all or subset of the cluster members.

KR.