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Hi Nunny,


Nunny wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/24/07, Brian Thompson <elephantium@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Comments interleaved below:
>>
>> Oh, one other thing:  In your model, do you ever expect the same image
>> to be attached to multiple BlogEntries?
> 
> 
> Nope,  Same image will not be attached to multiple Blog Entires. But if it
> is the case, as I understood I should use property of reference type in
> the
> blog entry which references to a image attachment. Is that the way to
> handle
> it ?
> 
> 
>> I went through the Node Type sections of the Jackrabbit site and also
>> 6.7Node Types of the JSR 170 specification. As I understood,
> 
> A node type defines the  Child nodes and properties it may ( or must )
> have.
> 
> Primary node type must be subtype of either primary or a mixin type and
> mixin type may have a super type and it is not a must.
> 
> I have few questions and some of them may be obsolete. But I listed them
> down as it is always better have a discussion and get things clarified.
> 
> 1.) In naming node types and properties, do we follow the naming
> conventions
> used in Java ?
> Eg. myFristType
> 
> IMO, Yes. It's better to follow it.
> 
> 2.) What is purpose mixin node type ?  Purpose of primary node is to
> define
> the structure of the node as I understood. What is the advantage of adding
> some properties or child nodes  via mixin types to a node ?
> 
> I think primary and mixin in JCR are much like class and interface in
> Java.
> Node must have ONE primary type: Class can only extend one class
> Node can have many mixin types: Class can implements many interfaces
> In one word, interface provides a function ability, same as mixin and
> think
> mixin as the interface.  You should only define functional properties and
> child nodes to mixin
> ,for example: uuid to mix:referenceable. uuid is a must property to
> achieve that reference ability/funciton
> ,so define uuid in the mixin, while cotent (for example) property is
> irrelated to that, keep it out of the mixin.
> I think you should treat them as you treat class and interface in Java.
> Think about when should extend a class
> and when should implement an interface and when use interface instead of
> extending a class.
> 
> 3.) What is the purpose of primary item of a node type?
> IMO, just for the convenient mehtod, it privodes a way to get the primary
> item without knowing its name.
> 
> 4.) In a property definition, in Required Type, what does NAME, PATH types
> mean ?
> 
> 5.) Is int supported as a property type ? It is not listed under  the
> property_type in the grammer.
> Use long instead of int
> 
> 6.) How to we constraint a property of a node to be unique ( like a
> primary
> key in RDBMS ) ?
> No way. Make your unique entity as a referenceable node A, then make a
> node B  a property C with reference type, C stores the A's uuid. So you
> can get it:   Node B --
>                                                                          
> |__C    ----->   Node A
> Thus node B only points to one unique Node A
> 
> 
> 
> As you proposed, if we change the hierarchy like this,
> 
>                 - Users
>                          -  Year
>                                   - Month
> 
>       - Date
> 
>              -  Blog Entry
> 
>                        -  Comment
> 
>                        -  Rate
> 
>                        -  Image Attachment
> 
> 
> 
> In CND notation,
> 
> <blog = 'http://jackrabbit.apache.org/jackrabbit-jcr-demo/1.0'>
> 
> <mix = 'http://www.jcp.org/jcr/mix/1.0'>
> 
> [blog:user] > mix:referenceable
> 
> -          blog:userID   (long) mandatory
> 
> -          blog:nickName  (string) mandatory
> 
> -          blog:email  (string) mandatory
> 
> -          blog:password (string) mandatory
> 
> + blog:year  [blog:year] multiple
> 
> 
> [blog:year]
> 
> -          blog:year  (long) mandatory
> 
> +   blog:month  [blog:month] multiple
> 
> 
> [blog:date]
> 
> -          blog:date (date)
> 
> +  blog:blogEntry [blog:blogEntry] multiple
> 
> 
> [blog:blogEntry]
> 
> -          blog:blogEntryID (long) mandatory
> 
> -          blog:content (string) mandatory
> 
> -          blog:image (binay) multiple
> 
> -          blog:rate (long)
> 
> -          blog:dateCreated (date) mandatory
> 
> +    blog:comment [blog:comment] multiple
> 
> 
> 
> [blog:comment]
> 
> -          blog:commentID (long) mandatory
> 
> -          commenterID (reference) mandatory  < blog:user
> 
> -          blog:content (string) mandatory
> 
> -          blog:dateCreated (date) mandatory
> 
> 

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