WIP: Implement tracking of page title

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WIP: Implement tracking of page title #251

Open jujoko7CF opened 1 year ago

jujoko7CF commented 1 year ago

User has a feature request to show the page title instead of just the target url. After some long discussions we decided to introduce a new statify meta table. In this table any additional tracking data can be saved. With this PR we save the wp_document_title in this meta table.

Fixes #78 , #196

stklcode commented 1 year ago

Just a reminder that this change conflicts with the planned aggregation (#234) or at least requires significant changes on at least one side.

2ndkauboy commented 1 year ago

@stklcode it is true that this might conflict with the data aggregation. But not necessarily. We haved discussed the data aggregation being in conflict with multiple other issues and have to yet decided if, and how the data aggregation would be done. We could still have aggregated data while still collecting more information. We "only" need to decide "at aggregation" how to handle this aggregated data. Would we aggregate per unique touple, use just one (the latest) additional data set? This should then be discussed in the data aggregation ticket.

stklcode commented 1 year ago

I didn’t say that aggregation is impossible with additional metadata, just not in the currently proposed way, i.e. we cannot simply merge both without additional work.

The title typically has 1-to-1 relation with the target URL at at specific point in time, so this case is more or less trivial to solve. With more attributes combinations grow and the benefits of tuple aggregation is thus reduced, so multi-layer aggregation over each attribute may be worth thinking of. But this would be incompatible with the proposed data structure.

But all this might be overthought at this time, we should not make it more complex than necessary for the first shot.