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Intro. REST service using MongoDB as backend Two basic operations (to simplify) Update attributes in entities (e.g. update the “speed” attribute in the “Car1” entity)
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Intro • REST service using MongoDB as backend • Two basic operations (to simplify) • Update attributes in entities (e.g. update the “speed” attribute in the “Car1” entity) • Subscribe to changes in a given attribute on a given entity, so when an update of it occurs, then a notification to a given URL is sent REST sesrvice MongoDB
Update “Update the Car1 speed to 80 km/h” REST sesrvice Entities are stored in the ‘entities’ collection: { "_id": "Car1", "attrs": [ { "name": "speed", "value": "80" } ] } MongoDB
Subscription “I want to receive a notification on http://notify.me each time any Car speed changes” REST sesrvice MongoDB Subscriptions are stored in the ‘csubs’ collection: { "_id": ObjectId("5149fd46f0075f83a4ca0300"), "reference": "http://notify.me", "entity": "Car.*", "attr": "speed" }
Update triggering subscription (“the problem”) “Update the Car1 speed to 85 km/h” In order to know which subscriptions are triggered by this update, a query on the “csubs” collection has to be done using “Car1” for the lookup. However, we have the regular expression stored in csubs (regex is not in the query!) Currently we use {$where: “\"Car1\".match(this.entity)" }, which is not recommended by MongoDB documentation. Reverse regex will solve this problem in a smart way: {entity: {$regexApply: {“Car1”}}} REST sesrvice MongoDB (See https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-13902 for more details on $regexApply)