[erlang-questions] Key-value stores and value part

[Chandru]

On 25 February 2012 02:37, Vinayak Pawar <vinayakapawar@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've a key-value store. The value part is a tuple stored using
> term_to_binary().
>
>     -record(some_rec, {e1, e2}).
>
>     Rec = #some_rec{e1 = E1, e2 = E2}
>     kv_store:put(Key, term_to_binary(Rec)).
>
> I access the values in this key-value store as below:
>
>     case kv_store:get(Key) of
>         {ok, Bin} ->
>             #some_rec{} = Rec = binary_to_term(Bin),
>             do_some_work(Rec);
>
>         false ->
>             do_something_else(Key)
>     end.
>
> Now there is change in my tuple structure. A new element/field is been
> added to it:
>
>     -record(some_rec, {e1, e2, e3}).
>
> Henceforth tuples with this new structure will get stored in the KV store.
>
> This means, everytime I change the tuple structure, I need to run through
> each key-value pair that has been stored using older tuple structure and
> update the value part to be in sync with new tuple structure?
>

Yes, if you want to use a record for the value part, this is unavoidable.


> This gives a hint that I'm doing something wrong in the way I store the
> values in schema-less KV store. Can you please help me figure out what is
> wrong?
>

Nothing is wrong really.


> Question: is it possible to store values in KV store so that I don't have
> to update the KV store whenever there is change in tuple structure?
>

No.


> store values in JSON form?
>

Yes, or a simple list of {tag, value} tuples.

cheers
Chandru
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