you better mention me @sullivan- like that i guess or i will probably miss you
all the model tests are passing!
Hey everyone!
I'm considering using the longevity framework, it looks so awesome! A couple of current concerns I have:
- How to aggregate data? Is there native way of doing this on longevity or should I do queries directly to the db (let's say mongo) when I want to do
groupBys,counts,avgs, and so on? - Is saving binaries (photos, docs, etc...) supported? or again, I need to talk directly to mongo's gridfs, for instance, to accomplish this?
Any help is much appreciated! :)
@sullivan- Great work so far, man!
Thanks for your support! Let me see if I can answer both of your questions in turn. The short answer is, both are possible and great ideas, but would take some effort to implement.
For aggregations, yes, you can always perform these directly against the DB. We can definitely add this as a longevity feature. It would take some work but it would be worth it. I am currently planning on doing an infrastructure refactoring, replacing a lot of home-grown reflection based code with the equivalent in shapeless. It would probably be best to hold off on implementing this feature until after this migration. With any luck, we'll get there before summer. In any event, I created a GitHub issue to track this excellent idea longevityframework/longevity#9
I wish I could start implementing both of these today, but I've got a lot of high priority tickets on my stack right now. If you have any interest in contributing, I would happy to help you along however I could.
My suspicion is there are not many people using it in production at the moment. Schema migrations support is a fairly critical missing feature (https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/108380704)
This time I got an email notification when you posted here, so next time I won't be three weeks late in responding :smile:
I wish I had a more optimistic response. Despite all the great features that longevity has, there are some good reasons I haven't hit 1.0 yet
Hahaha… Naaah, that user guide is killer :) it gives a good impression of the framework, that was a huge deal when I decided to look into it. I am not doing scala development in my day job so I have very little time to look into all the libraries I like :D but I love what I’ve seen so far.
Nice that you’re adding shapeless into the mix :D… It will certainly add more flexibility, less dev work and also you won’t need to maintain the inhouse reflection project (that’s “Emblem", right?).