[Developers] Property or Document?

[Ed Laurent]

I am also interested in being able to mark a text property as equivalent to
the article. In my case, I want to store products by a production number but
search for them through a short text description.

-Ed



On Jan 25, 2008 1:50 PM, John Giannandrea <jg at metaweb.com> wrote:

>
> Arthur, you should use whatever works best for your app.  Long
> documents should definitely go in the blob store, but short ones can
> go either way.
>
>  From our side, we much prefer that you put text blobs in the content
> store and use the /common/document type.
> The idea is that a document can remain static while its content
> property is versioned.
> In general the /common/document schema is intended to mirror RSS and
> Atom, and is the basis for our discussion system.
>
> In addition to search, we also support rich text editing of these in
> our UI.
>
> Being able to mark a text property as equivalent for the article (e.g.
> in autocomplete and such) is a god idea and we will think about it.
>
> -jg
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Arthur van Hoff wrote:
>
> > 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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