On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck
<marianopeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't understand. What is the difference from the querying and indexing
> point of view between serializing with JSON or a binary serializer.

let's say you have a class:

Object subclass: #MyClass
� � � �instanceVariableNames: 'a b'
� � � �classVariableNames: ''
� � � �poolDictionaries: ''
� � � �category: 'Example'

and you serialize it into the json to something like

{
� '_id': 'lkjjfdjdjdj',
� 'a': 'value of a',
� 'b': 'value of b'
}

than you can ask CouchDB to fetch you all object where for instance a is 'Aha!'

while if you serialize it as:

{
� '_id': 'lkjjfdjdjdj',
� 'fuel_blob': 'AAXsdfkljijS3SM .....'
}

CouchDB has no idea how to look into the a, and select appropriate objects.