Method for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user

• US 7,689,535 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2007
• Issued: 03/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Bernard, Emmanuel
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong; Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen; Merilyn P
• Application Number:
  US11/809,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20080301098A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,035 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 4, 707100-102, 707/104.1, 707/200, 707/103.R, 707/10
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

Techniques for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a first search query received from a client via a first search mechanism (e.g., outside of the relational DB) for a list of persistent objects representing data entries of a relational database, it is determined whether the persistent objects have been accessed via a second search query via a second search mechanism based on an object identifier of the persistent object. If the requested persistent object has been accessed via a second search query, an identical instance of the persistent object is returned to the client as a result of the first search query. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

Claims

1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:

in response to a first search query received at a common search application programming interface (API) from a client for a list of one or more persistent objects representing data entries of a relational database, the first search query being a structured query language (SQL) query, determining whether each of the persistent objects have been accessed via a second search query previously received at the common search API based on object identifiers (IDs) of the persistent objects, wherein the second search query is a full-text search query having one or more keywords; and

returning from the common search API an identical instance of the one or more persistent objects to the client as a result of the first search query if the queried one or more persistent objects have been previously accessed via the second search query, wherein the identical instance of the one or more persistent objects was returned to the client in response to the second search query.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first search query includes the object identifiers identifying the queried persistent objects.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the object identifier of the first search query is extracted from a list or a subset of the list retrieved from the second search query, wherein the list includes one or more documents containing at least one of the one or more keywords.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the list of the one or more documents are obtained by searching the one or more keywords within an index directory.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the persistent object has been accessed via the second search query is further based on an object type and identifier of the persistent object.

6. A machine-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method, the method comprising:

in response to a first search query received at a common search application programming interface (API) from a for a list of one or more persistent objects representing data entries of a relational database, the first search query being a structured query language (SQL) search query, determining whether each of the persistent objects have been accessed via a second search query previously received at the common search API based on object identifiers of the persistent objects, wherein the second search query is a full-text search query having one or more keywords; and

returning from the common search API an identical instance of the one or more persistent objects to the client as a result of the first search query if the queried one or more persistent objects have been previously accessed via the second search query, wherein the identical instance of the one or more persistent objects was returned to the client in response to the second search query.

7. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the first search query includes the object identifiers identifying the queried persistent objects.

8. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the object identifier of the first search query is extracted from a list or a subset of the list retrieved from the second search query, wherein the list includes one or more documents containing at least one of the one or more keywords.

9. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the list of the one or more documents are obtained by searching the one or more keywords within an index directory.

10. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein determining whether the persistent object has been accessed via the second search query is further based on an object type and identifier of the persistent object.

11. A data processing system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor for storing instructions, which when executed from the memory, cause the processor to

in response to a first search query received at a common search application programming interface (API) from a client for a list of one or more persistent objects representing data entries of a relational database, the first search query being a structured query language (SOL) search query, determine whether each of the persistent objects have been accessed via a second search query previously received at the common search API based on object identifiers of the persistent objects, wherein the second search query is a full-text search query having one or more search keywords, and

return from the common search API an identical instance of the one or more persistent objects to the client as a result of the first search query if the queried one or more persistent objects have been previously accessed via the second search query, wherein the identical instance of the one or more persistent objects was returned to the client in response to the second search query.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the first search query includes the object identifiers identifying the queried persistent objects.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the object identifier of the first search query is extracted from a list or a subset of the list retrieved from the second search query, wherein the list includes one or more documents containing at least one of the one or more keywords.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the list of the one or more documents are obtained by searching the one or more keywords within an index directory.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein determining whether the persistent object has been accessed via the second search query is further based on an object type and identifier of the persistent object.