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[Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:49 +0000, John Rowland Lenton wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:12:52 -0500, Rodney Dawes <dobey.pwns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Are we going to specify a data model at all for how the content of the
> > JSON objects should be structured for storing in the DB? Sort of like
> > the schema definitions we had for Contacts/etc… in desktopcouch?
> 
> I think this is a layer above u1db, and I don't think u1db should
> mandate this (unless it turns out to be necessary for performance or
> readability or whatever). And... I wouldn't be upset if one particular
> backend or implementation had some kind of restriction (e.g. "toplevel
> must be a json object, not list, and all entries must have the same
> keys). I'd recommend against it, as it makes it less useful, however.

Agreed.

sil