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What's more efficient? Get nodeRef from uuid or path?

spilby — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:43:12 GMT

Hi!I have a NodeRef object of a node, and I want to save it on BD for use it in the future. From the NodeRef object I can obtain the uuid or the path, for example.The question is… In order to save the correct information that I need to obtain the NodeRef later optimally (efficient and quickly, becau

Re: What's more efficient? Get nodeRef from uuid or path?

mrogers — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:13:16 GMT

Store the node ref. that's what its for. not parts of it. You can't use a path since the node could move. You may get away with the storing the uuid as long as you only use one store ref.

Re: What's more efficient? Get nodeRef from uuid or path?

spilby — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:51:00 GMT

But how can I store a NodeRef object on a database? Like a VARCHAR doing

nodeRef.toString()‍

method?

And in order to obtain the NodeRef object later, from the database, the correct way is doing:

NodeRef ref = new NodeRef(noderef);‍

? When noderef is the nodeRef.toString mentioned before.

Re: What's more efficient? Get nodeRef from uuid or path?

mrogers — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:25:43 GMT

Yes.