[Glass] Queries in Gemstone ...

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

Marten,

I've submitted an internal feature request (45014) .. not sure when I 
will get to it as my plate is pretty full right now:)

Dale
On 2/9/15 12:27 AM, itlists at schrievkrom.de wrote:
> Dale,
>
> yes indeed it was more an indirect feature request :-).
>
> With my REST system here I have nearly always this problem and it would
> be nicer to create a (regardless of syntax) query and let the system do
> the work. That would speed up the initial development time very well.
>
> Actually in so many data-query-requests it ends up coding Smalltalk code
> which actually do something like:
>
> -> get request
>
> -> code Smalltalk based on this request to do something like
>
> select x from y
>    [ where ...... ]
>    [
>      ordered by x.q
>      [ limit n  ]
>      [ offset m ]
>    ]
>
> -> serialize the result via json
>
> -> answer request
>
> At least these dammned paged request (limit and offset: typically
> supported by all UI browser frameworks) are candidates for expensive
> statements.
>
> And yes: manual coding would give better results ... and yes I have to
> think for myself to produce better code when having limit and offset
> options.
>
> I just wanted to say, what pattern I find very frequently when writing
> here REST oriented systems.
>
>
> Marten
>
>