[Developers] Property or Document?

[Arthur van Hoff]

Hi,

 

All our broadcast objects (/user/cotton/default_domain/broadcast) have a
summary property of type text which holds a plain text summary for the
broadcast. For Podcasts this is the description of the podcast that is
retrieved from the RSS feed.

 

Instead of using the summary field we could also use the
/common/topic/article property to store the summary as an external
document. This has the advantage that the summary would be displayed in
various lists, and it will be used to improve search.

 

What is the right solution here? Property or document? Or both?

                                

By the way, I prefer having the summary as a property because it is
easier to store and retrieve from the database. Ideally I would want to
mark the property in some way so that it is displayed in lists, and used
during search.

 

Have fun,

 

    Arthur van Hoff

 

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Arthur van Hoff, Dell-ZING, CTO Software and Services.

W: 650-267-2413, F: 650-267-2498, M: 650-283-0842

 

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