Re: [hibernate-dev] DocumentBuilder refactoring in Hibernate Search: how to deal (internally) with metadata
On 30 Jan 2013, at 2:00 PM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
I'm wondering how many node types there will be and how deep the
hierarchy
actually is. If it is basically only something like BeanDescriptor and
PropertyDescriptor, is it really worth a visitor pattern?
Right, my thinking as well.
On a more general note, would it make sense to have a joint meta
model for
the different projects such as OGM and Search?
No idea what model OGM needs, but I have a hard time seeing project specific meta data
being shared. The information it provides it per definition very specific to the given
project.
This might help avoiding to write and maintain redundant code (e.g.
merging
meta data from different sources) and also might be beneficial for the sake
of memory. Such a common model might have generic node types, to which the
different clients could attach specific payload.
That sounds a little over engineered to me. Maybe if I would see some prototype code.
But I am skeptical about this.
Note that I'm not sure whether that's a sound idea, just
throwing it out :)
Sure. np
--Hardy