So i haven't heard any negative feedback to making this change.  I'm going
to go ahead a put it in the 0.2-dev branch and getting it working, we can
make changes as needed.

Aaron


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> wrote:

> See below:
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Tim Williams <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> With these new services, there's no guarantee with respect to going
>> back to pick up documents? In other words, a search returns some
>> results and i go to fetch that document - is there a chance the wrong
>> doc could be returned?
>>
>
> No, that logic of create and releasing session would be done for you on
> the server side.
>
>
>>
>> Also, why is the DocumentRecord necessary? Can't we just pluck the id
>> on a Document?
>>
>
> We could, but i was trying to reuse thrift objects and I don't want an id
> on the Document object.  Mainly because Lucene doesn't require such a thing.
>
>
>>
>> Having the scores as an independent list feels weird from a client
>> perspective - I guess some awkwardness is a byproduct of thift though?
>>
>
> Kinda, I was trying to avoid creating another object to carry the document
> and the score together.  But we can do that, I'm not wed to the current
> API.  Just trying to create a higher level API for easier use.
>
>
>>
>> I assume the search methods are samples and it actually take a real
>> query object with paging, etc.?
>>
>
> No I was thinking of it taking a single string so that we could keep it
> simple.  But you do point out a need to pass that information into the
> search somehow, I would prefer to pass it in via an enhanced query language.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --tim
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > There wasn't any comments on the removing of sessions from the 0.2-dev
>> code
>> > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BLUR-61) so I thought I would
>> start
>> > discussion here.  I have given this a bit of thought over the past week
>> and
>> > I think that we do need sessions for managing index state.  However I
>> don't
>> > think that the typical client use case should have to deal sessions as
>> well
>> > as the complexity of the current RPC.
>> >
>> > So I offer a compromise, or at least a start to it.
>> >
>> > I have create a branch that has the RPC definitions checked in, but the
>> > server side is not implemented.
>> >
>> > The major change here is the addition of 2 services.
>> >
>> > service DocumentService {
>> >  DocumentResult searchRecords (1:string table, 2:string query)
>> >  void updateRecord (1:string table, 2:DocumentRecord record)
>> >  void deleteRecord (1:string table, 2:string id)
>> > }
>> >
>> > service DocumentGroupService extends DocumentService {
>> >  DocumentGroupResult searchGroups (1:string table, 2:string query)
>> >  void updateGroup (1:string table, 2:DocumentGroup group)
>> >  void deleteGroup (1:string table, 2:string id)
>> > }
>> >
>> > As you can see the DocumentGroupService extends DocumentService so that
>> you
>> > can interact with the documents in groups as if they were singletons.
>>  This
>> > is similar to the old api where we had Rows (DocumentGroup) and Records
>> > (DocumentRecord).  I call the DocumentRecord a record because it
>> contains
>> > an id as well as a Document (which has no predefined structure).
>> >
>> > Also the standard Blur service extends the DocumentGroupService so that
>> all
>> > the low-level calls are still available to clients that want to deal
>> with
>> > the details.
>> >
>> > A sample program (that won't work) for the DocumentService can be found
>> > here:
>> >
>> >
>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-blur.git;a=blob;f=src/blur-testsuite/src/main/java/org/apache/blur/testsuite/SampleSimpleDocument.java;h=42b1b5bafed5d159d1c7c767fd2da9ed6d20a472;hb=0.2-dev-clientrpc
>> >
>> > Another sample program (that won't work) for the DocumentGroupService
>> can
>> > be found here:
>> >
>> >
>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-blur.git;a=blob;f=src/blur-testsuite/src/main/java/org/apache/blur/testsuite/SampleSimpleDocumentGroup.java;h=cf2cf66f1ea577e346b0d560b8e1f06b32269b0f;hb=0.2-dev-clientrpc
>> >
>> > Let me know your thoughts.  Thanks!
>> >
>> > Aaron
>>
>
>

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