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To Use or Not Use Extended Attributes?

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To Use or Not Use Extended Attributes?

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Ron Ifferte
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on Mon, Apr 2 2012 11:01 PM

I understand that the current platform API allows us to view Extended Attributes of objects (i.e. groups/posts) but not add/modify them. Will this functionality be added to a future version? Is there a recommended use case for extended attributes or is this something that should be avoided?

We are re-working some of our site's features - and I would like to stay on the correct course of working with the platform. Extended attributes appear to be a nice choice as the data I am looking to add is extremely small and very simple. It would  also mean that I would not have to create custom tables to store this data.

Any help is appreciated.

- Ron

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  • Dan Hounshell
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    on Tue, Apr 3 2012 2:53 PM
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    Ron, support for adding/updating extended attributes was added to the public APIs in the 6.1 release - hot off the presses!

    Extended attributes are a good option for storing custom data along with a post, section, group, user.

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  • Dan Hounshell
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    on Tue, Apr 3 2012 2:53 PM
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    Ron, support for adding/updating extended attributes was added to the public APIs in the 6.1 release - hot off the presses!

    Extended attributes are a good option for storing custom data along with a post, section, group, user.

  • Ron Ifferte
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    on Tue, Apr 3 2012 3:42 PM

    Dan - you have totally made my day! Now I am off to download the latest version....