[OAK-3507] Virtual index rows should have paths as 'null'

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: query
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vikas Saurabh
• Created: 12/Oct/15 15:46
• Updated: 12/Oct/15 15:49

Description

While discussing OAK-3156, it was decided that virtual rows would have returned path as null. Opening this issue to let OAK-3156 be resolved as status quo on value being returned by virtual rows.

Note: Having null paths for virtual rows is semantically correct as there is no defined meaning of a path for those rows. But it brings in some backward incompatibility issue:

• existing queries which would have some ... AND jcr:path='/' would not work anymore
• xpaths has path built in implicitly, so xpath need to be un-supported

PS: Do look at comments on OAK-3156 to get more details into how/why did we arrive here.

Issue Links

• is related to: OAK-3156 Lucene suggestions index definition can't be restricted to a specific type of node