[Glass] GsQuery and message sends ...

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

Marten,

We do have selector-based path terms that can be used in a query:

   'each.#foo < 1'

where #foo indicates that a message should be sent instead of directly 
accessing an instance variable. The drawback of a selector-based path 
term is that GemStone cannot do automatic index maintenance.

With that said it is possible to use the GemStone modification tracking 
api to manage the btrees for selector-based path terms. In GemStone 3.3, 
we included example code for using modification tracking and 
selector-based path terms 
($GEMSTONE/examples/smalltalk/SelectorPathTermExample.gs). The example 
is in GemStone 3.3 because there are some bugs in the modification 
tracking code for 3.2 that are needed to make modification tracking work ...

If you are not using the query against an index, you should be able to 
use selector-based path terms in 3.2.

Dale


On 05/24/2016 01:52 AM, Marten Feldtmann via Glass wrote:
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> ... and yes, it would be nice to have the possiblity to have message 
> sends in the query string also ... that would be REALLY nice !
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> Marten
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