Re: (G|S)etting arbitrary properties on user nodes -- is this safe?

Posted by Hugo <Nabble> on Nov 11, 2011; 2:58am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/G-S-etting-arbitrary-properties-on-user-nodes-is-this-safe-tp6979544p6984228.html

DavidJCobb wrote

<p>The method by which I do this is fairly simple -- <code><n.some_user_node.set_property name="about_me" value="This is a blurb!"/></code> -- and it seems to work just fine right now. However, this is undocumented functionality, so honestly I have no idea if it's future-compatible. Will this method remain functional and safe to use in the future?</p>

If the idea is to expand the user profile, then you should use the user properties instead of the node properties. So you can call things like this:

n.page_user.has_property name="abc"
n.page_user.set_property name="abc" value="1"
n.page_user.delete_property name="abc"
n.page_user.get_property name="abc"

I know this information is not easily available on our NAML user interface, but we will keep improving it so that users can explore the binary namespaces and learn more about the available commands.