On 24 November 2012 14:06, Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Norbert!
>
> It's cool to know that you like it :) Together with Esteban's work on
> Voyage, it allows us to do extremely cool stuff with Mongo and Pharo.
>
> What I like with Voyage-Mongo + MongoQueries is that objects are
> persisted without any effort, it just works, and we can query Mongo
> collections like we would do with Smalltalk collections.
>

are you talking about serializing objects (or subgraphs) directly, and
storing them in mongo db ?

> Nico
>
> Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> writes:
>
>> Hey Nico,
>>
>> I looked into your new stuff and I like it. Especially the MongoQueries stuff is very simple and clean approach to do a small DSL. That boosts the usability of MongoTalk extremely. Bravo!
>>
>> Norbert
>>
>> Am 19.11.2012 um 15:37 schrieb Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Lately I worked a bit on the Pharo Mongo driver for SmalltalkHub. I made
>>> several changes (in the new version 1.4):
>>>
>>> The query API changed:
>>>
>>> - MongoCollection>>query: now takes a 1 arg block, improving the API
>>> quite a bit.
>>>
>>> Queries like:
>>>
>>> aCollection query: (aCollection query
>>> � �query: { 'foo' -> 'bar'} asDictionary;
>>> � �yourself)
>>>
>>> Is now written:
>>>
>>> aCollection query: [ :query |
>>> � �query where: { 'foo' -> 'bar'} ]
>>>
>>> Sending #asDictionary has also been made optional, the query builder
>>> will send #asMongoQuery to the query collection.
>>>
>>>
>>> The MongoQueries package:
>>>
>>> Version 1.4 comes with a new package MongoQueries, a small DSL allowing
>>> us to use traditional blocks instead of dictionaries to perform
>>> queries. This is optional and backward compatible.
>>>
>>> Queries like:
>>>
>>> aCollection select: { '$or' -> { 'name' -> 'foo'. 'age' -> { '$gt' -> 23 }
>>> asDictionary } asDictionary } asDictionary
>>>
>>> can be expressed:
>>>
>>> aCollection select: [ :each | (each name = 'foo') | (each age > 23) ]
>>>
>>> The MongoQueries package should support the entire mongo query language
>>> (including nested queries), and comes with unit tests.
>>>
>>> Nico
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Nicolas Petton
> http://nicolas-petton.fr
>

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Igor Stasenko.