Aerospike:update not updating complex type

Feature Discussion User Defined Functions (UDF)
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When changing the complex type on a record, aerospike:update doesn’t update the data. To make aerospike:update update the complex type the complex type first need to be cloned and then set to the record. Is this the default implementation or is it a bug?

– this doesn’t work topRec.map[key] = value aerospike:update(topRec)

– this works topRec.map = map.clone(topRec.map) topRec.map[key] = value aerospike:update(topRec)

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I experienced the same problem when writing a generic library to mutate values in a list or map via a UDF (see Aerospike Labs ).

What you have to to is “touch” the bin so that the storage system knows that the bin needs updating in the record

try this code:

function add(topRec, key, value)
  if aerospike:exists(topRec)  then

    if topRec.data == nil then
      topRec.data = map()
    end
    topRec.data[key] = val
    
    -- add this code to "touch the bin"
    topRec.data = topRec.data

    aerospike:update(topRec)
    return topRec.data
  end
end
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