Thanks to all for the recommendations:
A text file could work... I'm just not sure how big it will be.. I could have the stack simply dump the text and FTP that to the site...
Thanks
Sivakatirswami
On Feb 11, 2005, at 1:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 2/11/05 1:45 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
For a small amount of data to be delivered on the web e.g. 1000 records or less; in this case, word definitions of a glossary. where the record has only two pieces of data
--word
-- definition, am wondering if a back end revolution stack can serve us?
I would think so. Even if you just use "find" to locate the words, it wouldn't be too bad (though the "find" command isn't the fastest thing in the world.) The fastest way to locate a card is by ID though, so you might want to create a lookup table instead. Before you publish the stack, run a handler that walks through the cards and stores the word and the card ID in a list somewhere. Then have the CGI get the lookup table, extract the ID, and grab the definition from that card.
Which actually means that someone else's suggestion of just using a text file might work just as well, though maybe a little less esthetic for data entry.
Since input will be by a single admin individual, access would be read only. It's so simple, I'm not sure we need a macho PostGreSQL dbase for this and a Rev Stack would be so easy-portable. I can have someone working on a stack on his own machine... then just move it to the server how efficient is that... very...
Right. Very easy.
The question would be: are there any read access concurrency issues in such a web app context?
Not if the file is only being read. It can be opened multiple times by any number of instances of the engine.
Anyone else doing this? what's your experience?
if a cgi calls
"start using stack "../html/books/master_lexicon.rev"
... does that mean another person hitting the same CGI within milliseconds will have a problem?
I have a CGI on my site that does this. There hasn't been any problem, as long as the files are read-only.
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