[JCR-1239] SPI: Provide possibility to retrieve the number of child-nodes without retrieving them.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: jackrabbit-spi
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Angela Schreiber
• Created: 27/Nov/07 15:33
• Updated: 17/Dec/07 14:16

Description

separate issue started by julian within issue #1166:

RepositoryService.getChildInfos is defined to return an Iterator.

this forces the caller to loop over all entries in order to detect the number of child-nodes.
currently the hierarchy is populated any way, but that could be a source for future optimization.

possible solutions:

• change return value to RangeIterator
• change return value to Collection (or Set).