Have the riak store create bucket types in create_schema

[igaray]

Currently the riak store create_schema does not fulfill its responsibility of preparing the storage for the data. The bucket type creation and activation, index creation and association to the bucket must be done manually through the riak-admin command and riak's REST API.

It would be preferable to handle this automatically, possibly tuning it via create_schema option parameters.

[jonasrichard]

Here you can find the riak-admin features:
riak_core_console
Unfortunately I don't know where Riak handles REST api, how they work, who can register to webmachine, etc.
Let me ask Basho if they accept pull requests (to documentation as well). If it works and add valuable features I think they are willing to merge.

[jfacorro]

What I found when I looked at this is that the riak erlang client doesn't provide an API call to create bucket types because the Riak API doesn't provide one.

The riak-admin tool is built on a set of scripts that ends up making an rpc:call/3 to the riak_kv_console:bucket_type_create/2 function in the local Riak node. As far as I could tell this is not exposed anywhere through the Riak API (either HTTP or ProtoBuff) which makes it hard to create buckets types and buckets 😞.

[lixen]

Created a branch with create and activate bucket type API over PB.

git clone https://github.com/lixen/riak
git checkout bucket_types
make stagedevrel DEVNODES=1
./dev/dev1/bin/riak start

git clone https://github.com/lixen/riak-erlang-client
git checkout bucket_types
[email protected] RIAK_TEST_PBC_1=10017 make test

riakc_pb_socket:create_bucket_type(Pid, BucketType, BucketProps)
riakc_pb_socket:activate_bucket_type(Pid, BucketType)

[elbrujohalcon]

@lixen have you sent PRs with that to Basho?

[lixen]

@elbrujohalcon I started with the riak-erlang-client. Do you have any requirement on Riak version where you would like this functionality?

[igaray]

We're currently using 2.0.5

[cabol]

This issue was moved to the specific Riak adapter repo HERE