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This pattern is commonly called "materialized path", if anyone is trying to search for it.
by twerquie 12y ago
This pattern is commonly called "materialized path", if anyone is trying to search for it.
- barosl 12y agoThanks! I wanted to know what it is called.
- vkjv 12y agoThanks for the name! We do this internally to store various levels of product data in a single mongo collection (e.g., style, variant).
- benjohnson 12y agoA similar system is also heavily used in the construction world in their "Work Breakdown Structure" - a borrowing on how they document airplane parts that are part of an assembly, that are part of a module, that part of a structure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structure