General Query Framework, a proposal

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
29 Jan 2002 18:23:34 -0500


Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com> writes:

> > > I realize that isn't list isn't comprehensive, but we
> > > should support all the basic kvp types, including int64
> > > and double. Also, boolean would be good, too.
> > 
> > True, but this list is "comprehensive" in that it covers everything
> > that the current Query can cover.  But yea, we should be able to
> > cover all the KVP types.
> 
> Oh, well in that case you're just wrong :) You missed the 'kvp'
> query api, unless you were looking at the stable sources.

:-P

It handles everything except KVP and RecnCells -- is that better?

[snip]
> Well, first take a look at the existing api.

Yea, and the current KVP basically does what I said: you pass it
a slot path and a kvp_value to compare against ;)

> dave

-derek

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