What is this?

An easy to use, non-blocking Scala client library for interacting with Riak.

See the project site for full documentation, examples, scaladocs, and more.

Status (Jan 24th 2015)

The latest version is 0.9.5, which is compatible with Akka 2.3.9 and Spray 1.3.2. It has been tested for compatibility against Riak 2.0.4

This library is cross-built against Scala 2.10.4 and 2.11.5 and compiled using -target:jvm-1.7.

Installation

To get started, add the following dependency to your SBT build:

libraryDependencies += "com.scalapenos" %% "riak-scala-client" % 0.9.5

Recent Changes

0.9.5

• Cross-built for Scala 2.10.4 and 2.11.5
• Upgraded to Akka 2.3.9 and Spray 1.3.2 (thanks to @CharlesAHunt)
• Upgraded the default JSON serialization implementation to [spray-json] 1.3.1, which is around 15 times faster than the 1.2.x versions we used before.
• Fully tested with Riak 2.0 (2.0.4) and 1.4 (1.4.10)
• Added Travis and Coveralls support (thanks to @zaneli)

0.9.0

• New feature: allow conflict resolvers to specify whether the resolved value should be written back to Riak or not (thanks to @asnare)
• Dropped support for older versions of Akka and/or Spray

Features

So far, the following Riak (http) API features are supported:

• Fetch
• Store
• Delete
• Secondary Indexes (2i)
  • Fetching exact matches
  • Fetching ranges
  • Storing with indexes
• Getting/setting bucket properties
• ping

Other features include:

• Completely non-blocking thanks to Scala 2.10 Futures, Akka, and Spray
• Transparent integration with Akka projects through an Akka extension
• An untyped RiakValue class for interacting with raw Riak values and their associated meta data (vclock, etag, content type, last modified time, indexes, etc.)
• A typed RiakMeta[T] class for interacting with deserialized values while retaining their associated meta data (vclock, etag, content type, last modified time, indexes, etc.)
• Customizable and strongly typed conflict resolution on all fetches (and stores when returnbody=true)
• Automatic (de)serialization of Scala (case) classes using type classes
  • builtin spray-json (de)serializers
• Automatic indexing of Scala (case) classes using type classes
• Auto-retry of fetches and stores (a standard feature of the underlying spray-client library)
• Optional compression of Riak HTTP responses (see enable-http-compression setting).

The following Riak (http) API features are not supported at this time:

• Link walking
• Map Reduce
• Listing all keys in a bucket
• Listing all buckets
• Conditional fetch/store semantics (i.e. If-None-Match and If-Match for ETags and If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since for LastModified)
• Node Status

The initial focus is on supporting the Riak HTTP API. Protobuf support might be added later but it has a low priority at the moment.

The riak-scala-client has been tested against Riak versions 1.2.x, 1.3.x, 1.4.x, and 2.0.x

Current Limitations

• 2i fetches do not use streaming when processing the initial Riak response containing all matching keys. This means that this list of keys matching the specified index is currently read into memory in its entirety. Fetches with large (100k+) result sets can be slow because of this and might potentially cause memory problems. A future release will solve this by streaming the data using Play iteratees.
• 2i index names and index values containing some special characters will not be handled correctly. This is due to the way these have to be encoded for transmission over HTTP. And earlier version did manual double URL encoding/decoding but that was not a sustainable solution. Please avoid using characters like ' ', ',', '?', '&', etc. in index names and index values for now.
• HTTP compression, when enabled (enable-http-compression = true), is only used for Riak responses. Request payloads are sent to Riak as they are due to a number of known limitations:
  • Riak value that has been stored with a non-empty Content-Encoding header is always served by Riak with that encoding, regardless the value of Accept-Encoding fetch object request header. See https://github.com/agemooij/riak-scala-client/issues/42 for details.
  • Riak set bucket properties endpoint doesn't handle compressed payloads properly. See https://github.com/agemooij/riak-scala-client/issues/41 for details.
  • Delete requests with Accept-Encoding: gzip header may be served with HTTP 404 Not Found responses which have Content-Encoding: gzip header, but text/plain body. See https://github.com/agemooij/riak-scala-client/issues/43 for details.

Why such a boring name?

It seems all the cool and appropriate names, like riaktive, riakka, riaktor, scalariak, etc. have already been taken by other projects. But there seems to be a common riak-xxx-client naming pattern used by Riak client libraries for other languages so that's what ended up deciding the, admittedly boring, name.

If you come up with a cooler name, please let us know and eternal fame will be yours!

License

The riak-scala-client is licensed under APL 2.0.

[spray-json] https://github.com/spray/spray-json/