I did that and managed to get it working. A slug is used in a URL to 
identify a resource, usually by "traincasing" its name, e.g., 
/cool-blog-post-2015-07-31. It makes for a better, more aesthetic, and 
human-readable URL compared to using UUIDs.

Chas.

On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 5:59:07 AM UTC+12, David Carr wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>

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