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

[spilby]

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, because the tree of nodes on Alfresco is too big), what is the best way?

For example, I can do this:

NodeRef ref = new NodeRef(uuid);‍

or I can do a lucene search with the path. But I don't know which is the best efficient way to obtain a NodeRef.

Thanks!

[mrogers]

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.

[spilby]

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.

[mrogers]

Yes.