On 16 November 2016 at 17:40, Vikram Lalit <vikramla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - I am trying to leveraging CRDT sets to store chat messages that my
> distributed Riak infrastructure would store. Given the intrinsic
> conflict-resolution, I thought this might be more beneficial than me
> putting together a merge implementation based on the causal context.
>
> However, my data model requires each chat message to be associated to
> something like a post, hence I was thinking of having the post reference as
> the bucket, and chat references as keys in that bucket. With of course the
> bucket-type datasource equated to 'set'. Unfortunately though, from the
> documentation, I'm not able to ascertain how to associate a created set
> with an existing bucket and a new key reference if I use the Erlang client.
> This seems possible for other languages but not for Erlang, with the Basho
> doc mentioning "%% Sets in the Erlang client are opaque data structures
> that collect operations as you mutate them. We will associate the data
> structure
> with a bucket type, bucket, and key later on.".
>
> Subsequent code only seems to fetch the set from the bucket / key but
> where exactly is the allocation happening?
>
> {ok, SetX} = riakc_pb_socket:fetch_type(Pid, {<<"sets">>,<<"travel">>}, <<
> "cities">>).
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something, or is there a code snippet that I can
> leverage?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
Hi Vikram,
Please have a look at the following snippet, that shows the complete set of
operations used to update a CRDT set with the Erlang client:
update_crdt_set(Server, BType, Bucket, Key, Val) ->
T = unicode:characters_to_binary(BType),
B = unicode:characters_to_binary(Bucket),
K = unicode:characters_to_binary(Key),
{ok, Pid} = riakc_pb_socket:start_link(Server, 8087),
Set = case
riakc_pb_socket:fetch_type(Pid, {T, B}, K)
of
{ok, O} -> O;
{error, {notfound, set}} -> riakc_set:new()
end,
Set1 = riakc_set:add_element(unicode:characters_to_binary(Val),
Set),
{ok, {set, Vals, _Adds, _Dels, _Ctx}} = riakc_pb_socket:update_type(
Pid, {T, B}, K, riakc_set:to_op(Set1), [return_body]),
Vals.
The set is updated with riakc_set:add_element/2, and sent back to the
server with riakc_pb_socket:update_type/5, which in turn takes an argument
returned from riakc_set:to_op/1.
More information and samples can be found in the Riak documentation [0] and
the Riak Erlang client API docs [1][2].
Please let me know if this answered your question.
Kind Regards,
Magnus
[0]: http://docs.basho.com/riak/kv/2.1.4/developing/data-types/sets/
[1]: https://basho.github.io/riak-erlang-client/riakc_set.html
[2]:
https://basho.github.io/riak-erlang-client/riakc_pb_socket.html#update_type-5
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