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From: Felix Meschberger <fmeschbe@adobe.com>
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:50:29 +0000
Subject: Re: Support for long multivalued properties
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Hi,

Am 15.11.2012 um 14:06 schrieb Lukas Kahwe Smith:

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> On Nov 15, 2012, at 14:02 , Thomas Mueller <mueller@adobe.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>>> before adding this i would rather want to see support for hash maps.
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>> Sounds interesting.. could you give more details please?
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> well right now you can only store "ordered lists".
> especially in PHP its common to use associative arrays
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> $var =3D array(
>  'foo' =3D> 'bar',
>  'ding' =3D> 'dong',
> )

Hm, this looks more like node "var" with properties "foo" set to "bar" and =
"ding" set to "dong" to me.

Regards
Felix

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> right now when I want to store such data in JCR/Jackarabbit I need to spl=
it this into 2 multi valued properties, one with the values and one with th=
e keys, which then need to be reassembled on read.
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> that being said .. if we want to add this in OAK, we should look into add=
ing it into JCR 2.1 aka JSR-333 too
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> regards,
> Lukas Kahwe Smith
> mls@pooteeweet.org
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