A few clarifications:
Standard persistent classes are not saved by default. To get access
to a class via the map-class operator the class or a slot of the
class must be declared as :indexed. If a slot is indexed, then that
value can be used as a key for the object via the get-instances-by-
value interface. Moreover, you can have duplicate slot values and
get-instances-by-value will return all the objects having that slot
value.
Think of the root more like a hash table (single key-value pair)
instead of a set or collection. The simple get-value interface would
be more complex if it could return multiple values.
It is poor coding practice to use system-assigned OIDs. In future
versions of elephant OIDs may change over time due to GC, auto
recovery of oid space, etc. It's sort of like using the physical
address of an object in a C++ program. There is a legitimate way to
use OIDs outside of elephant, but we haven't yet defined an interface
for users to do so (for example you might want to use OIDs to create
many-to-many maps or efficient persistent sets)
Ian
On May 28, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Dmitry V. Gorbatovsky wrote:
On Monday 28 May 2007 07:36, Joubert Nel wrote:
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 23:46, Robert L. Read wrote:
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 16:23 -0400, Joubert Nel wrote:
On another note:
In my experimentation I added several objects to the root, all
with the
same key.
All these objects get added but there is the following curiosity:
- I can do a map-class to get them all, BUT
- map-root will only return one key/value pair for a given key (even
when there are multiple objects stored against the same key)
I'm wondering whether a design decision was made to allow
addition of
the same key more than once?
Thanks for a great library.
Joubert
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Nop , as far as I understand, map-class operate on OID and type
information
and returns all persistent objects , while root 'hash-table' keep
only last
key-value pair.
Regards , Dmitry
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