gell-org

gell-based approach to working with organizational hierarchies

WIP

• most applications deal with some sort of organizational hierarchy

• an organization can simply be groups of users, or can be more complicated

• dynamodb is used here as a persistence layer

  • could provide other implementations in a "plugin" approach
• • logic/sequences for common capabilities

•  - query

•  - search

•  - add

•  - remove

•  - update

•  - move/reclassify

•  - label

•  - index?

• • authorization?
• • does everything have a parent?

•  - is the parent the ecosystem?

• ITEM ATTRIBUTES

• • id: unique identifier of the thing
• • parentId: unique identifier of the parent
• • type: entity type

• NON INDEXED/QUERYABLE

• • name
• • title
• • description

DynamoDB Persistence

/** *

• APPROACH #1
• • key is id only
• • allows for simple lookup
• • indexes for other types of queries
• APPROACH #2
• • key is org id and id
• • possible id only index
• • possible type and id index

•  - this wouldn't work for a universal login

*/

Directory Abstraction

• this package may be further abtracted as a "directory"
• support other hierarchies besides organizations