On Apr 5, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> I'm developing a rather performance-sensitive app against Riak, and while the
> PBC API has much better raw performance than the REST API, it is sufficiently
> crippled in numerous ways as to be of quite limited use. This is somewhat
> frustrating, as notionally simple operations such as a conditional PUT
> ("don't put this value if the key is already present") are tricky to achieve
> with the PBC API,
Maybe use a validating pre-commit hook?
> and slightly more complex operations ("get if modified since I last checked")
> are impossible.
I agree on this one. It would be great to have the equivalent of
HEAD/If-None-Match in the PBC API. Actually even just providing a HEAD type
request in the PBC API would be great. I can think of numerous situations where
I'd like to inspect the metadata without having to mess with the content.
Thanks!
Jon Brisbin
http://jbrisbin.com
Twitter: @j_brisbin
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