[DRILL-4238] Allow custom messages to be sent on control channel

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Execution - RPC
• Assignee: Jacques Nadeau
• Reporter: Jacques Nadeau
• Created: 03/Jan/16 00:36
• Updated: 11/Jan/16 06:45
• Resolved: 11/Jan/16 06:45

Description

Storage Plugins may have the need to communicate between nodes. Rather than implementing a new RPC layer for that purpose, we should add support for a custom tunnel to be piggy-backed on the existing Control RPC layer.