[Question] How to store a list of values?

[AlexanderChen1989]

Give a node with a position key with value (x, y, z), How can I store this in Dgraph?
The order of value in list is important.

[manishrjain]

One way you can store this is just storing it as a single value, i.e. marshal it to string or bytes, and just store them as such. That way order would be maintained.

This does mean that you can't append to the list, you'll have to re-set the entire list every mutation. That might be OK though.

[AlexanderChen1989]

@manishrjain If I store the relations of nodes with same key, will the order be preserved?

[AlexanderChen1989]

@manishrjain or can I sort edges by facts?

[manishrjain]

You can retrieve the facets for all these edges, and then sort them. We haven't built the sorting in Dgraph because there's no added advantage of doing it within Dgraph.

[AlexanderChen1989]

@manishrjain thanks