[Yanel-dev] New XMLDB repository

[Michael Wechner]

Josias Thöny wrote:

> Michael Wechner wrote:
> [...]
>
>>
>> from my guts I think Yanel should not have to care what kind of data 
>> it's piping through, but maybe my guts tell my something wrong ;-)
>>
>> How is JCR handling this?
>
>
> In JCR, data is stored in properties which have a type. A property of 
> type 'binary' provides getInputStream and setInputStream methods.
> There is also the property type 'string' which provides getString and 
> setString methods, although I doubt that this is meant for storing 
> complete xml documents.
> However, JCR allows to store the mimetype along with the actual data 
> (in a second property), so the repository basically could know what 
> kind of data is being read/written.
> BTW, our node-based repo allows that, too. There are get-/setMimeType 
> methods. But the repo does not force you to use that, and in 
> particular it does not force you to set the mimetype before you write 
> the data.
> ATM I'm not sure if that could solve our problem.


I would suggest to skype this afternoon and then present possible 
approaches on this mailing list in order to make a decision.

Cheers

Michi

>
> josias
>
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Michi
>>
>>> WDYT?
>>>
>>> josias
>>>
>>>> For writing, there should basically be no problem, since Yanel can 
>>>> decide based on the MIME-type if it is going to write a 
>>>> character-based or a binary resource.
>>>>
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