Update to LiteDB5.0

[humhei]

All tests will be passed, After a bug of LiteDB being fixed

1. Remove UsingCustomJsonConverter
2. Make more types Internal or private
3. Remove Linq.fs, This is not related to this repo
4. Fixing Datetime Serialization and deserialzation #46(May be fixed)
5. ~~Remove fullserach as this is not recommanded in LiteDB5.0~~

[Zaid-Ajaj]

Hi there @humhei thanks a lot for the PRs, I will be reviewing/merging them soon so we can get a new version 😄

[humhei]

Since fullsearch is usefull when query with union case, I add it back to LiteDB.FSharp

[humhei]

This PR should not be merged Until the bug in LiteDB get fixed

[Zaid-Ajaj]

Hi @humhei I have merged in all your PRs and published the library as of v2.16 and simplified the repository structure a lot!

Before rewriting the code for the LiteDB 5 upgrade, I think we should discuss how the next version v3 should look like.

I see that LiteDB v5 supports a SQL-like language which may return different shapes and values than the predefined collection types so in v3 I am thinking of maybe removing the automatic serialization/deserialization altogether and building a new conversion model similar to Thoth.Json

[humhei]

I see that LiteDB v5 supports a SQL-like language which may return different shapes and values than the predefined collection types

Sorry, i didn't understand this line well

As far as i know SQL-like systax query still return an BsonDocument which only including base types as the same to LiteDB v4? While using BsonArray in it to represent collection types

[humhei]

so in v3 I am thinking of maybe removing the automatic serialization/deserialization altogether and building a new conversion model similar to Thoth.Json

I am not familiar with Thoth.Json But after reading the documents roughly, Seems Thoth.Json still exists automatic serialization/deserialization which named (AutoDecoder and AutoEncoder)

[Zaid-Ajaj]

As far as i know SQL-like systax query still return an BsonDocument which only including base types as the same to LiteDB v4?

Well say you have a document that looks like this

{
  "_id": 1,
  "name: "John",
  "age": 20
}

and you have a type in F#

type Person = { id: int; name: string; age: int } 

Now you query the "persons" collection and only return name from the collection like this:

SELECT $.name FROM persons

The result would be that each document has the shape

{ 
  "name": "John"
}

and this BsonDocument cannot be deserialized into Person anymore because of the missing fields.

Meaning that each query results in a new projection that doesn't necessarily look like the original type which is why I am proposing to have a mechanism to deserialize the documents using Decoder<'T> from Thoth but instead of JSON, we have BSON

[humhei]

Thanks for the explanation, It's awesome!

so in v3 I am thinking of maybe removing the automatic serialization/deserialization altogether and building a new conversion model similar to Thoth.Json

type Person = { id: int; name: string; age: int } 

SELECT $.name FROM persons

In my option(may be immature) The automatic serialization/deserialization doesn't confict to this SQL statment,

We can consider SELECT $.name as an deserialization part to person's name, which means,

We can using an expression <@ fun person -> person.name @> to get the name sharp from bsonDocuments, Then We can deserialize person.name (here is a string, but may be same more complex types like a record) with fsharpJsonconverter and then get all the names without deserilizing whole the person sharp

Some addition info on how LiteDB deal with it(it use an Select Expression on IQueryable)

/// https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB/blob/master/LiteDB/Client/Database/LiteQueryable.cs#L182 
colPerson.Query().Select(fun person -> person.name).Where(fun personName -> personName = "John")

[twop]

I see that LiteDB v5 supports a SQL-like language which may return different shapes and values than the predefined collection types so in v3 I am thinking of maybe removing the automatic serialization/deserialization altogether and building a new conversion model similar to Thoth.Json

@Zaid-Ajaj if it helps I think having no reflection in serialization/deserialization path might help with perf. Also I feel like explicit conversion is less "magical" which for me is a good thing.

• Not sure if it is possible but potentially it might make library friendly for AoT compilation similar to https://github.com/rejemy/UltraLiteDB

[Zaid-Ajaj]

@twop Serialization/Deserialization is actually plenty fast but my problem is the fact that we use record types to define shapes both for reading and writing where in reality writing might be a subset (i.e. without ID) and reading might be a superset (i.e. fetching from multiple collections)