The only missing part I guess the documentation. Will there be update to the website to reflect the new JSON module?
- Henry On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Kasper Sørensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Maybe you saw that I posted a review request [1] yesterday for METAMODEL-38 > (a JSON based module for MetaModel). > > I was building this JSON module and trying to do it in a way where the user > could configure how the logical schema would look like. In some cases you > would want MetaModel to infer the schema based on a sample of documents in > the source, and in other cases you might want MetaModel to just treat the > source as a 1-column table with a MAP data type. There's probably also > other strategies. > > That part I felt was also very relevant for many other "schemaless" > datastores, such as MongoDB, CouchDB, HBase etc. So I put there interfaces > and a few standard implementations of it into the core module, and applied > it to the JSON module. If this idea is accepted, I would like to also add > it to MongoDB and CouchDB modules (those are a natural fit) and maybe also > HBase (slight more advanced because of the column-family concept). > > I think it makes sense to open a DISCUSS thread about this approach, since > Schema Inference is in itself a very nice distinguishing feature I think. > I'd like to invite anyone to share their ideas here, so that this is maybe > a place where we can make MetaModel shine. > > Cheers, > Kasper > > [1] https://reviews.apache.org/r/23228/
