Re: Resource insert/update

On Mar 9, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Natalia Shilenkova wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Vadim Gritsenko  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Natalia Shilenkova wrote:
>>
>>> Recently I had to work on some code that would require to add unique
>>> resources to Xindice database. Currently, collections can only  
>>> "store"
>>> resources, which will add new resource if the key does not exist in
>>> the collection and will overwrite the resource with new data if key
>>> already exists. What I needed instead was a way to "insert" or
>>> "update" resource, where collection would get updated only if  
>>> resource
>>> with that key does not exist in case of insert or does exist in case
>>> of update. Since Xindice does not support transactions or  
>>> constraints,
>>> I ended up creating new service that would allow user to insert/ 
>>> update
>>> resources.
>>>
>>> Are there any objections to adding this functionality to trunk?
>>
>> Makes sense to me. What service do you propose to add? Care to
>> describe the interface?
>
> The interface is very straightforward:
>    void insertResource(Resource res) throws XMLDBException
>    void updateResource(Resource res) throws XMLDBException
>    void storeResource(Resource res) throws XMLDBException

Ok. So storeResource() corresponds to existing  
org.xmldb.api.base.Collection.storeResource() method, while  
insertResource and updateResource will delegate to corresponding  
methods on org.apache.xindice.core.Collection?


> I am not sure about service name, though. Any suggestions?

Only ResourceManagementService comes to mind.

Vadim