Hackathon notes (non-binary protocol thread)

[Dustin Sallings]

On Jul 17, 2007, at 11:21 , BUSTARRET, Jean-francois wrote:

> I'm not a very experienced C coder, but I'll try to share some  
> ideas... Please be tolerant
>
> - add "char* tags" to the _stritem struct
> - store tags in a comma/whatever-delimited string :  
> ",tag1,tag2,tag3," (space and comma being reserved), the client  
> being eventually responsible for formatting the tag string
> - modify the protocol to add an optional tag parameter <command  
> name> <key> <flags> <exptime> <bytes>[ <tags>]\r\n
> - add a new deletetag command ?
> - delete items using the same rule approach as described by Dustin,  
> strpos-ing(",tag,") instead of regexp-ing the key
> Multi-tag deletes can be split in multiple rules
>
> IMHO, limiting the max number of tags and the max size of a tag  
> would not be a problem.

	We wouldn't want to modify the existing commands to also take tags  
versus adding new commands to deal with the management of tags.

	That's a good start, and it seems that it could work.  I'd be  
concerned that you're storing a lot more information in a lot more  
places, though.  If you just stored the tags in the key and used the  
regex cleanup, you'd get the same effect without changing the storage  
strategy too much and without having to do any protocol modification  
other than adding the delete-by-pattern command.

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Dustin Sallings