I want to store large images in Riak. As soon as Riak has saved the entire blob, I want to use a post-commit hook to create thumbnails of various sizes.
I plan to show the mobile user a progress bar that will advance during the upload, and continue even after the last byte has entered the cluster, while the nodes are approaching quorum. To the clients, a progress bar at 100% will indicate a safely completed upload. To other developers, a progress bar at 100% will indicate that all background tasks are complete and the mobile client can disconnect from the service. It occurs to me that I might be able to start some downsampling immediately after the first copy of the image has been written into the cluster. I could shoot a small thumbnail back into the client before I move the progress bar to 100%. The wiki [0] seems clear on the subject: "API & Behavior ... Hook functions must accept a single argument, the riak_object instance just written." It seems that the post-commit action can only start on a fully-qualified Riak object, which would be available only after all n copies of the image have been distributed and verified as written. Is there a sensible way to short-circuit this process within Riak? Is starting early on post-commit work a reckless idea? Many thanks. KJ [0] wiki.basho.com/Commit-Hooks.html _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
