SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HIERARCHICAL DATA CONTAINERS

摘要

A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing a computing environment, such as a cloud data repository. In some embodiments, such may include modifying an object or a component of an object at runtime and storing the modified object or modified component of an object in a storage device. In some embodiments, the component of an object being modified may include traits. In some embodiments, traits may be hierarchical data structures, including hierarchical data structures having more than one version. These hierarchical data structures may also contain or be associated with metadata, and may also make up the metadata of a host object. Embodiments provide that policies may be applied to these traits.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
creating, based at least in part on a data object type definition, an instance of a data object; creating a hierarchical container that includes data comprising an instance of a hierarchical relationship that is defined at least in part by a hierarchical data trait definition; and storing the data comprising the instance of the hierarchical relationship as a trait associated with the instance of the data object, including by embedding the hierarchical container in the instance of the data object, wherein the embedded hierarchical container is stored with a reference to the hierarchical data trait definition.