Storing raw JS objects and querying according to pointer equality === #248
Description
I want to use datascript to store "pointers" to raw JS objects, and be able to query for them.
So I did a small test to see if it could work.
First with a class which works:
const d = require('datascript');
class DummyObj {}
const obj1 = new DummyObj;
const obj2 = new DummyObj;
const db = d.empty_db();
const db1 = d.db_with(db, [[':db/add', 1, 'obj', obj1], [':db/add', 2, 'obj', obj2]]);
d.q('[:find (pull ?e [*]) :in $ ?obj :where [?e "obj" ?obj]]', db1, obj1); // only entity 1
d.q('[:find (pull ?e [*]) :in $ ?obj :where [?e "obj" ?obj]]', db1, obj2); // only entity 2Second with just a normal object:
const d = require('datascript');
const obj1 = { x: 1 };
const obj2 = { x: 1};
const db = d.empty_db();
const db1 = d.db_with(db, [[':db/add', 1, 'obj', obj1], [':db/add', 2, 'obj', obj2]]);
d.q('[:find (pull ?e [*]) :in $ ?obj :where [?e "obj" ?obj]]', db1, obj1); // []
d.q('[:find (pull ?e [*]) :in $ ?obj :where [?e "obj" ?obj]]', db1, obj2); // []But the second one doesn't, it just returns nothing.
Also are certain objects ever directly serialised? What determines whether to compare objects by their serialised form vs by their object pointer?