Indexing hashes using ruby

[manolopm]

Hi:

I'm trying to index a Hash in ruby and this is what I get:

irb(main):211:0> indexer << {:test => { :test1 => "hola", :test2=> 23}} => nil irb(main):212:0> indexer[0][:test] => "{:test1=>\"hi\", :test2=>23}"

I take a look to the code of index.rb and I found that add_document method don't take into account if something is a Hash and convert it to string. Can this be patched to take into account this case?

Regards from Canary Islands

Manuel Padrón Martínez

[dbalmain]

Are you saying that is what you want to get? This is what I get.

irb(main):004:0> index << {:test => { :test1 => "hola", :test2=> 23}}
=> nil
irb(main):005:0> index[0][:test]
=> "test1holatest223"

To get what you have I would have to do this;

irb(main):006:0> index << {:test => { :test1 => "hola", :test2=> 23}.inspect}
=> nil
irb(main):007:0> index[1][:test]
=> "{:test1=>\"hola\", :test2=>23}"

If this is what you want, it shouldn't be too hard to write a wrapper to do this. I don't really think it is an issue though.

[woahdae]

Yeah, I would find it surprising if ferret took responsibility of serialization/typecasting. Seems like that's the job of something higher level.

To that end, if you used a json serializer, ex. JSON.dump & JSON.load, you would get what you're looking for.