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Re:Elasticsearch: dealing with complex permissions by molf on Monday December 01, 2014 @01:54PM (#8682892)
Makes no sense to me. Why not have a document for a file and a document for a folder? Or if you must have a single document, why not a field for folder permissions and one for file permissions? The corresponding query would be trivial.

This seems overly complicated and I can't find any justification for it in the article.

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Re:Elasticsearch: dealing with complex permissions by dylanbow on Monday December 01, 2014 @05:12PM (#8684259)
The article was maybe a bit too simplistic. What if you have more then one folder? What if a file can be located within a whole tree of folders, just like on a file system? Would the corresponding query still be trivial? Maybe there's a trivial way of doing recursion in elasticsearch?
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