Integration with GridFS features [DATAMONGO-6]

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Mark Pollack opened DATAMONGO-6 and commented

Provide Spring Resource abstraction for GridFS.
Helper class around common use cases.

File upload servlet?

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Matthias Scudlik commented

fast content search would be great

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Mark Pollack commented

can you elaborate a bit? Something like this http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/383437318/integrating-mongodb-with-solr ?

I believe that mongodb itself will be offering some text search feature in the future but that might not be around gridfs....

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Matthias Scudlik commented

Since GridFS is dealing with binary data it certainly makes not sense for all kind of data.

I suggest that there should be standard functionality for text files (text, xml, html,..)
and the possibility to add "adapters" for custom data.

This should probably be done by indexing the binary content. The "adapter" should be
able to add custom indexes. For example if you have a pdf document you could implement a
custom adapter that opens the pdf and adds the text of the pdf to the index.

On the other hand you could also have an zip archive that has some content you are looking for.
For the standard functionality the mimetype (GridFS is aware of that) should be enough (text, xml,..) to be able to determine how the index should be created.

For zip files the mimetype is not enough. Imagine you have different kinds of zip archives.
One may contain images, another may have word or openoffice documents or even a mix.
So my idea is that you can add such a custom adapter depending on the mimetype and a filepattern.

iamges_001.zip -> dont index
documents_001.zip -> extract zip file, add index for pdf documents.

Something like that. I think is is a common usecase and it would be really great to have that.

Using Lucene i would create that index in order to retrieve the id of the file/data and then get that file/data. But i didn't evaluate which technologie i would use for that and actually i haven't use
Lucene. As far as i know Solr is a full text search server and i would not recommend that because in my opinion a server is not a must have.

I hope this was understandable

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Matthias Scudlik commented

I just had another idea that would be nice to have, but is probably hard: MimeType Sniffing for InputStreams that you can store

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Oliver Drotbohm commented

Current draft is at this GitHub branch. Feedback is welcome!

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Oliver Drotbohm commented

Just merged the initial draft into the master branch and deployed a snapshot build. No integration with any indexing support yet. We might want to create a separate ticket for that if there's demand