2010/9/21 Jacob Hansson <ja...@voltvoodoo.com> > Hey all, > > I'm looking into modifying the DatabaseLocator class in neo4j-rest to allow > connecting to remote databases (ie. letting neo4j-rest expose > RemoteGraphDatabases via REST, enabling monitoring and management via > webadmin of completely external projects). > > The change would basically just check if DB_PATH is a local file or an > rmi:// URI, and use RemoteGraphDatabase if it is the latter. After the > change, you could expose your internal database over RMI as normal ( > http://components.neo4j.org/neo4j-remote-graphdb/), and then specify the > RMI > url as your db path to neo4j-rest (how you do that depends on how you run > the project). > > There would have to be some checks put into place also, since certain > things > won't be possible when not running an EmbeddedGraphDatabase. Some things > may > also need to be done a bit differently and might have to wait, like > indexing. >
Sure, why not! > > I would also like to deprecate this in the current API: > > DatabaseLocator.getXXX(URI baseUri) > > And change it for: > > DatabaseLocator.getXXX() > > Unless I am not understanding the reason for this syntax. Currently nothing > is done with baseUri, it is simply ignored throughout DatabaseLocator. I > assume it was meant to define the database path, but was replaced by a > system setting instead as it is now? Neither is really a great solution, > but > it's confusing that there are two apparent ways to do it, and only one that > works. > > Does anyone have any thoughts about this or does it all sound ok? > I think that those were created with some sharding in mind or something... I don't know, but they are definately not used a.t.m. > > -- > Jacob Hansson > Phone: +46 (0) 763503395 > Twitter: @jakewins > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- Mattias Persson, [matt...@neotechnology.com] Hacker, Neo Technology www.neotechnology.com _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
