Hi all,
I'm looking for ideas about how to best deal with a situation where I
need to deal with storing key/values pairs in the index for consumption
in the client.
Typical example would be to have a document with multiple genres where
for simplicity reasons i'd like to send both the 'id' and the 'human
readable label' (might not be the best example since one would
immediatly say 'what about localization', but in that case assume it's
an entity such as company name or a person name).
So say I have
field1 = { 'key1':'this is value1', 'key2':'this is value2' }
I was thinking the easiest (not the prettiest) solution would be to
store it as effectively a string 'key:this is the value' and then have
the client deal with this 'format' and then parse it based on
'<key>:<value>' pattern
Another alternative I was thinking may have been to use a custom field
that effectively would make the field value as a map key/value for the
writer but I'm not so sure it can really be done, haven't investigated
that one deeply.
Any feedback would be welcome, solution might even be simpler and
cleaner than what I'm mentioning above, but my brain is mushy in the
last couple of weeks.
-- stephane
