Working with Fixed Partition and colocated-with

Products

• VMware Tanzu Gemfire

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
The purpose of this article is to explain how to configure Fixed Partition with "colocated-with" region.

Environment

Cause

When configuring fixed partition with colocated-with it executes the below validation, which causes the process to fail to start server if "fixed-partition-attributes" and "colocated-with" are set on the same region:

public void validateWhenAllAttributesAreSet(boolean isDeclarative) { 
if (this.colocatedRegionName != null) { 
if (this.fixedPAttrs != null) { 
throw new IllegalStateException( 
LocalizedStrings.PartitionAttributesImpl_IF_COLOCATED_WITH_IS_SPECFIED_THEN_FIXED_PARTITION_ATTRIBUTES_CAN_NOT_BE_SPECIFIED 
.toLocalizedString(this.fixedPAttrs)); 
} 
}

Resolution

To enable "fixed-partition" with a collocated region:

1. The "fixed-partition-attributes" attribute need to be specified only on a parent region --- child regions will inherit the property.

2. You need to implement same partition-resolver on all co-located region

   <cache> 
   <region name="exampleRegion"> 
   <region-attributes refid="PARTITION" async-event-queue-ids="sampleQueue"> 
   
   <partition-attributes local-max-memory="50" redundant-copies="1" > 
   <partition-resolver name="QuarterPartitionResolver"> 
   <class-name>test.QuarterPartitionResolver</class-name> 
   </partition-resolver> 
   <fixed-partition-attributes partition-name="Q1" is-primary="true" num-buckets="6"/> 
   <fixed-partition-attributes partition-name="Q2" is-primary="false" num-buckets="6"/> 
   </partition-attributes> 
   </region-attributes> 
   </region> 
   
   <region name="exampleRegion1"> 
   <region-attributes refid="PARTITION" > 
   
   <partition-attributes local-max-memory="50" redundant-copies="1" colocated-with="exampleRegion"> 
   <partition-resolver name="QuarterPartitionResolver"> 
   <class-name>test.QuarterPartitionResolver</class-name> 
   </partition-resolver> 
   </partition-attributes> 
   
   </region-attributes> 
   </region> 
   
   
   <region name="exampleRegion2"> 
   <region-attributes refid="PARTITION" > 
   
   <partition-attributes local-max-memory="50" redundant-copies="1" colocated-with="exampleRegion"> 
   <partition-resolver name="QuarterPartitionResolver"> 
   <class-name>test.QuarterPartitionResolver</class-name> 
   </partition-resolver> 
   
   </partition-attributes> 
   </region-attributes> 
   </region> 
   
   </cache>