The Chandler Project Blog

The PyLucene project
was announced on June 24th. It started with version 0.5 to illustrate
that it was sort of half-way there; half-way to supporting the entire
Lucene set of APIs and
capabilities.

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‘redirectTo’ is an attribute aspect that redirects all value and other aspect accesses on an attribute to another one.

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It’s been 4 months since I’ve posted anything here. During this time, the repository has undergone a lot of changes I should post about.

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Recently, Jeffrey Harris wrote a paper on the Import Export Landscape and asked me to comment on it.

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Chandler’s repository enables concurrent and versioned access to the items it stores. The repository keeps the history of all changes made to items over their lifetime. This history can be used to replay or revert changes made to an item. It makes undoing committed transactions possible. It makes automated merging of different versions possible.

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OSAF chose a non-locking transaction model for Chandler’s repository.
One advantage of that choice is that items are never locked.
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Because of syntactic overlap between path strings and uuid strings the find() API on Item and Repository had to be reworked.

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Natively, the repository supports two ways of finding any item, by Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) and by Path.
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