I guess a very natural place would be to add it to the neo-utils Collection implementations. There's a lot of work in and around collections already done there. Maybe I could take a look at extending that implementation with Comparator.
2008/9/1 Johan Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think we could add a collection utility that keeps a set of nodes > sorted according to a comparator given at creation time (of the > collection utility). Later we could add support so an exception is > thrown if the comparator is not serializable but for now we can just > do a quick implementation where the right comparator has to be passed > in constructor to maintain consistent state. > > I'll create a ticket for this and hopefully someone will see to it > quite soon (we are currently quite busy with the upcoming release). > > -Johan > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Nils Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The comparator approach sounds more suited to me as well... sorting >> should probably not be done in memory here, and it might make sense to >> generate some indexes to allow quick filtering within that collection or >> graph subset or so. >> >> Has anyone done anything similar yet? That requirement seems to be the >> only thing preventing me to give a Neo4j a go (vs. for example jackrabbit). >> >> Please correct me if anything doesnt make sense! >> >> Nils >> >> Anders Nawroth schrieb: >>> A sorted structure seems like a really good idea to me. >>> But i'd rather like to see something more generic, where the user >>> provides a Comparator<Node> implementation. >>> >>> One reason for this is that Strings can be sorted in different ways, >>> using different Locales, case in/sensitive and so on. If there is a >>> clear benefit from it, some common use cases could be covered by >>> prebuilt Comparators. Or code snippets in the documentation (would be my >>> choice) laying out common use cases. >>> >>> And the user could also do so much more fun things with a Comparator to >>> play with :-) >>> >>> /anders > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
