[BLUR-1] Create Formal Types

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: experimental-dev
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aaron McCurry
• Created: 08/Aug/12 02:15
• Updated: 02/Feb/13 15:48
• Resolved: 02/Feb/13 15:48

Description

Currently all data in Blur has to be represented as a String, though different analyzers can be used to provide the effect of types. The Thrift RPC will have to changed to accommodate this new feature. The initial list of types that should be supported are:

-String
-Long
-Date
-Int
-Double
-Float
-GIS (Lat + Long)
-Binary
-Security Label
-Custom

The security label would allow for a formal implementation of access control per document (Record in current RPC API terminology).

The custom type, would allow for creating your own named type that can be installed into Blur and then referenced by name in the RPC.