I'm not familiar with the term slug but you should be able to do this via a hook (aka insert trigger). I have a few insert triggers that work well. Try to follow the tutorial here http://orientdb.com/docs/last/Tutorial-Java-Hooks.html.
On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 3:27:13 AM UTC-6, Charles Munat wrote: > > I want to create a slug from a user's name and save it when the record is > created. In PostgreSQL this is easy with a procedure and a trigger, but I > can't for the life of me figure out how to do it in OrientDB. I need to a) > get hold of the name field of the document within the javascript function > onBeforeCreate, and b) I need to compare the slug to all the other slugs to > ensure that it is unqiue, and to add an incremented integer if it is not. > > It would be nice to have a simple function that I could call on default > for the slug field (better still if I could pass it the name of the field > or fields to be used to create the slug). Barring that, a dynamic hook. > > What is the best practice, or can someone provide a link to where this is > covered in the documentation? I can't find it. > > TIA, > > Chas. Munat > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OrientDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
