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More on PyLucene

October 26th, 2004 at 1:48 pm (3 years, 10 months ago) by Andi Vajda under chandlerdb

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: how far to go with it ?

October 20th, 2004 at 1:10 pm (3 years, 10 months ago) by Andi Vajda under chandlerdb

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

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Time to revive this blog ?

October 20th, 2004 at 10:10 am (3 years, 10 months ago) by Andi Vajda under chandlerdb

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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Comments on Jeffrey’s Import Export Landscape

July 6th, 2004 at 3:07 am (4 years, 1 month ago) by Andi Vajda under chandlerdb

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

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The Chandler transaction model

June 7th, 2004 at 10:06 pm (4 years, 2 months ago) by Andi Vajda under chandlerdb

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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Pinning items into memory

June 3rd, 2004 at 5:06 pm (4 years, 2 months ago) by Andi Vajda under chandlerdb

OSAF chose a non-locking transaction model for Chandler’s repository. One advantage of that choice is that items are never locked. Read the rest of this entry »


find() API changes

May 30th, 2004 at 12:05 pm (4 years, 3 months ago) by Andi Vajda under chandlerdb

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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Proposal for ref collection-based paths

May 24th, 2004 at 7:05 pm (4 years, 3 months ago) by Andi Vajda under chandlerdb

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