Re: [infinispan-dev] Flexible indexing - an idea

On 29 sept. 09, at 11:05, Manik Surtani wrote: > > On 29 Sep 2009, at 09:47, Sanne Grinovero wrote: > >> IMHO even having just a couple (String mime-type, byte[] mp3) >> makes up a good POJO, and makes it easy to add more info >> you'll likely need in future. > > Right, this is what I think as well. So in the case of web caching, > you may have a byte[] and some metadata (K/V pairs), but what you > would cache is probably a custom object of yours- something like: > > MIMEObject { > @Indexed String mimeType; > byte[] content; > } > > I guess the tricky bit would be representing an arbitrary-length > dictionary of metadata as indexable fields? Is this what you are > getting at, Mic? you can index Maps and use a custom bridge to map a String key to a field in lucene. This is fairly standard HSearch procedure.

BTW your example should read > @Indexed @ProvidedId > class MIMEObject { > @Field String mimeType; > byte[] content; > }