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Subject: Re: On custom index configuration
From: Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org>
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:16:45 +0200
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On Sep 18, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitting@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> We now have a couple of initial index implementations for Oak and some
> ideas on how index configuration could/should work. In order to start
> unifying those approaches and to find some common consensus, I'd like
> to throw out an idea of how I think index configuration should work in
> Oak. Critiques, improvements or competing ideas welcome!
>=20
> First of all I think there shouldn't be just one single place in the
> repository where all index configuration should go. It would be nice
> if users and applications could define custom indexes on areas they
> have write access to, and having to grant them access to some shared
> location for that might be troublesome.
>=20
> Instead I'd allow a custom indexes to be defined by adding something
> like an oak:indexed mixin type and an associated oak:indexes child
> node to any node in the repository. Each child node of that
> oak:indexes node would configure an index for the subtree rooted at
> that oak:indexed node. Index configuration would be stored as normal
> content, and the index content in a hidden :index subtree or elsewhere
> depending on the type of the index.


would this also allow to offer something similar to the virtual nodes =
based on facettes that HippoCMS currently offers?

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org