Re: Re: [mdr-users] How are repositories supposed to be used by modules?

Martin Matula wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> why don't you use:
>       package Timestamps imports PrimitiveTypes {
>           class Timestamp {
>                 extentName : String
>                 timestamp : Long
>           }
>       }
> 
> Martin

That is basically what I did. I stopped trying to use the URL's as the 
extent names and instead I just use an automatically-generated ID. So, 
the model looks like:

package Directory imports PrimitiveTypes {
     class DirectoryEntry {
         extentId     : Integer
         lastModified : Long
         sourceUrls   : String [unique 0..*]
     }
}

The package is naemd "Directory" as in "Extent Directory" (Telephone 
Directory, etc.), probably not the best name. I created a wrapper class 
"DirectoryManager" that the rest of my code now usees to access the 
repository and manages the cache (deletes extents which are out of date 
with respect to their files).

- Brian