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kensanata / mastodon-archive

Archive your statuses, favorites and media using the Mastodon API (i.e. login required)
https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Mastodon_Archive
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Search all collections #50

Closed ashwinvis closed 5 years ago

kensanata commented 5 years ago

~I think the simple question I have is whether we need to add itertools to install_requires in setup.py? If so, can you add that?~

I have a different question regarding the order in which results are displayed, however. I feel like I'd like search results from multiple collections to present results in order of creation, irrespective of where they were found. I don't even know what that means. Should we sort the statuses found at the end? Should we assume that the statuses in collections are ordered (they will be, almost always, I think?) and thus merge all the collections first and then search them? Or were you yourself just interested in finding one status and just the question of sort order just never comes up?

kensanata commented 5 years ago

Merging, because it's better than what we have, but I still wonder. :)

kensanata commented 5 years ago

I guess itertools is part of the core.

ashwinvis commented 5 years ago

Or were you yourself just interested in finding one status and just the question of sort order just never comes up?

That's it. I find myself searching for a keyword and I am always unsure what collection it was in.

Should we sort the statuses found at the end? Should we assume that the statuses in collections are ordered (they will be, almost always, I think?) and thus merge all the collections first and then search them?

Merging (by creating a set / dict.update) and sorting (sorted) would be nice. But I doubt if it would be that simple.

kensanata commented 5 years ago

OK, we'll leave it as it is. If somebody misses the feature, we can always add it later.