[GEODE-4045] Locator should enable PDX type registry

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: locator
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dan Smith
• Created: 01/Dec/17 21:17
• Updated: 01/Dec/17 21:17

Description

Now that we have callbacks that are invoked on the locator like SecurityManager, it's possible users may try to use PDX on the locator - for example reading data from a region in their SecurityManager.

It looks like we intentionally disabled PDX on the locator based on this code in GemFireCacheImpl.initializePdxRegistry()

      if (this.getMyId().getVmKind() == DistributionManager.LOCATOR_DM_TYPE) {
        this.pdxRegistry = new TypeRegistry(this, true /*True means create a disabled registry*/);
      } else {

We should consider changing this code and always enabling PDX on the locator.