Proposed item relationship format for views

items_view

// This is a proposed format for representing relationsips in items when
// they are rendered into views.  This optimizes both for transport and
// lookup efficiency on the front end.

// compacting rels into arrays of keys in hashes with the name of the rel as the key will:
// 1) allow lookups on the fe without needing to iterate
// 2) compact the data into the tightest possible (with json at least) format for transport

	{
		_id: "23423423",
		type: "user",
		data: {
			name: "fred"
		},
		rels: {
		
		
			"wrote": ['23423423', '23423423', '23423423', '23423423'],
			"follows": ['2342ewr23', '2342ewr23']
		}
	},
	{
		t: "comment",
		d: {
			body: "The quick brown fox WASN'T FAST ENOUGH"
		},
		rels: {
			"author": ['23423423'],
			"context": ['32l4j2l3k4j']

		}

	}
	...

Great! Are you thinking on model this same way the comments on comments relationships?

Yes. so a comment might have:

rels : {
   'replies': ['abcd', 'qaaa', 'aclu']
}

or

rels: {
  'replyTo': ['abcd']
}

I'd love to check in about how to best provide the info necessary for these relationships. For example: it's easy for me to post new comments with a 'replyTo' field, I want to make sure I'm giving you all what you need to populate the 'replies' relationship in the parent comment appropriately.