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Subject: [pbs-devel] [RFC PATCH proxmox/proxmox-backup] implement streaming
 serialization for api calls
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this series aims to improve memory behaviour for api calls where the
result is large. We currently convert that result into a serde `Value`
which, depending on the actual structure of the data, can use much more
memory than the original rust structure (e.g. i saw factor 5 to 10 for
the backup snapshot list) which in addition seems to trigger bad
behaviour in the memory allocator (this again....).

by streaming the serialization, we don't need any in memory copy of the
result, and we could probably even return an Arc<> or Rc<> so we maybe
don't have to copy the data at all (we would have to implement Serialize
on that ourselfs, or enable the 'rc' feature for serde to use that)

the only downside to that is that we need a thread per api call in which
we serialize into our tokio mpsc channel, since the serde serialization
has no async functionality.

sending as rfc because:
* not sure about the naming of things
* could probably use improved tests
* not really documented (i looked, but found no obvious place
  where to add that to the api macro docs?)

proxmox:

Dominik Csapak (4):
  proxmox-async: add SenderWriter helper
  promxox-router: add SerializableReturn Trait
  proxmox-router: add new ApiHandler variants for streaming
    serialization
  proxmox-api-macro: add 'streaming' option

 proxmox-api-macro/src/api/method.rs         | 127 ++++++++++++++------
 proxmox-api-macro/tests/api1.rs             |  16 +++
 proxmox-async/src/blocking/mod.rs           |   3 +
 proxmox-async/src/blocking/sender_writer.rs |  47 ++++++++
 proxmox-router/Cargo.toml                   |   2 +
 proxmox-router/src/cli/command.rs           |  45 +++++++
 proxmox-router/src/lib.rs                   |   2 +
 proxmox-router/src/router.rs                |  78 ++++++++++++
 proxmox-router/src/serializable_return.rs   |  62 ++++++++++
 9 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 proxmox-async/src/blocking/sender_writer.rs
 create mode 100644 proxmox-router/src/serializable_return.rs

proxmox-backup:

Dominik Csapak (3):
  proxmox-rest-server: OutputFormatter: add new format_data_streaming
    method
  adapt to the new ApiHandler variants
  api: admin/datastore: enable streaming for some api calls

 proxmox-rest-server/Cargo.toml       |  1 +
 proxmox-rest-server/src/formatter.rs | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 proxmox-rest-server/src/rest.rs      | 10 ++++++
 src/api2/admin/datastore.rs          |  1 +
 src/api2/node/tasks.rs               |  1 +
 src/bin/proxmox_backup_debug/api.rs  |  8 +++++
 6 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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