Faster Remote and Non-Blittable Types

[cmadh]

Digging through the Faster Repository and the remote-samples I'm wondering if it's currently possible to use FasterServerTcp/FasterKVClient with Non-Blittable Types.

SubscribeKVBroker and SubscribeBroker seem to work with memory-regions of objects returned by ref so they seem to only work with Blittable-Types, is that correct?

IKeySerializer, IKeyInputSerializer<Key, Input>, IServerSerializer<Key, Value, Input, Output> allow any kind of Type as Generic parameter (it's not even limited to structs) and there's no single comment about blittable- and non-blittable-types which confuses me a little.

I'm also confused by how FasterKV and FasterServerTcp connect to each other as the FasterKVProviderBase registered in a FasterTCPServer uses a FasterKV-instance internally.

Is there a way to use Non-Blittable Types with the remote-stack at the moment by doing some form of conversion between Non-Blittable Objects and blittable types like Span?

I would greatly appreciate some clarification or even a small example with a Non-Blittable Type if possible!

[badrishc]

The best approach here would be to use VarLenServer and serialize your types into Span at the client side.

We do not properly support arbitrary types on client rehydrating into the server as the same type, beyond some untested code in GenericServer.

[cmadh]

Thank you for the response, that matches my thoughts, we'll give it a try.