Specify forest while inserting/fetching the document in marklogic

Question

If I have to insert a document in MarkLogic, how can I specify in which forest the document should be stored, using the Java API?

Here is an example where I write data to a MarkLogic database :

// create the client
DatabaseClient client = DatabaseClientFactory.newClient(
    props.host, props.port, props.writerUser, props.writerPassword,
    props.authType);

// make use of the client connection
TextDocumentManager docMgr = client.newTextDocumentManager();
String docId = "/example/text.txt";
StringHandle handle = new StringHandle();
handle.set("A simple text document");
docMgr.write(docId, handle);

If I can store the document by specifying the forest, then I also need to fetch the document with the forest specified.

I think it is possible because I have seen storing and searching within a specific forestId in XQuery. Like so:

insert into a specific forest:

xdmp:document-insert(
    $uri as xs:string,$root as node(), 
    [$permissions as element(sec:permission)*], [$collections as xs:string*],      
    [$quality as xs:int?], [$forest-ids as xs:unsignedLong*])
as empty-sequence()

search a specific to forest -

cts:search(
    $expression as node()*, $query as cts:query?,
    [$options as (cts:order|xs:string)*], [$quality-weight as xs:double?], 
    [$forest-ids as xs:unsignedLong*]) as node()*

Please let me know how to do this in the Java API.

Sam Mefford · Answer 1 · 2016-06-02T15:30:25.123

Today this is not available via Java Client API. It will be available in MarkLogic 9. If you want to try it out in an early access release of MarkLogic 9 you can join the early access program. We would love to hear your feedback after trying out this feature.

In MarkLogic 9 you can do this by specifying the forestName to the DatabaseClientFactory:

DatabaseClient client = DatabaseClientFactory.newClient(
    props.host, props.port, props.writerUser, props.writerPassword,
    props.authType, props.forestName);

Then documents written will be written to that forest and searches will only match within that forest.

Specify forest while inserting/fetching the document in marklogic

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