get completely rid of in-memory metadata storage

Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <sascha-pgp@silbe.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdatastore/index.py b/gdatastore/index.py
index 35491bf..4b0569a 100644
--- a/gdatastore/index.py
+++ b/gdatastore/index.py
@@ -302,6 +302,11 @@ class Index(object):
 
         return entries, total_count
 
+    def retrieve(self, object_id):
+        postings = self._database.postlist(_object_id_term(object_id))
+        document = self._database.get_document(postings.next().docid)
+        return deserialise_metadata(document.get_data())
+
     def store(self, object_id, properties):
         logging.debug('store(%r, %r)', object_id, properties)
         assert (properties['tree_id'], properties['version_id']) == object_id