If what Alexander is saying is true, what you would need to do is
create your own commit hook that would look for a custom HTTP header:
X-RIAK-INDEX: {"field1": "value1", "field2": "value2"}
That hook would use that header to index on instead of the Riak
Object's value. There are limitations to this approach such as a size
limit on HTTP headers and the header value would have to be on one
line. I think that given that secondary indexes are usually small
simple values, the size limitation probably won't come up. In
addition, producing JSON on a single line is easy because new lines in
string values are automatically escaped.
The worse (or best) part about this is you would have to write the
commit hook in Erlang if the current search hook is any indicator of
what the secondary indexes hook will look like.
Eric Moritz.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Alexander Sicular <sicul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think all that is yet to be determined, from a public standpoint (I
> don't know any more than anyone not working at Basho). If secondary
> indexes are implemented (interface wise) in a similar fashion as Riak
> Search then I would imagine that the index would be enabled as a hook
> at write time. Either a hook at write time (which I would imagine will
> be the method employed) or some other mechanism, Riak would need to be
> able to understand the value you are writing to disk to be able to
> index it properly. Meaning that whichever way you are encoding your
> object, Riak would need to be able to decode it in the two languages
> that it speaks - javascript or erlang.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 08:55, Runar Jordahl <runar.jord...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am working on a solution where an object graph (for example a full
>> insurace contract) is serialized to binary data and stored as a single
>> Riak object. Upon saving the binary data to Riak, I will extract the
>> fields needed for indexing and (hopefully) use the upcoming “secondary
>> indices” ( http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/19806
>> ) to index the object based on the extracted data.
>>
>> How will this work with the upcoming secondary indices feature? Will I
>> need to store all data (index data and binary data) as a single JSON
>> object, using base-encoding for the binary part? Or, will I be able to
>> use custom headers for the indices, storing only raw binary data as
>> the main content?
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Runar
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