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Instructions for setting up a FeedLand server.
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Update: Working on FeedLand API, making change in how users table works #32

Open scripting opened 1 year ago

scripting commented 1 year ago

Hopefully there will be no breakage from this change, which I'm making very carefully.

First a bit of background.

  1. I'm working on a REST API for FeedLand, so we can build other UIs for the data in a feedland instance.
  2. I have a prototype app whose codename is markTwain. You will hear me refer to it from time to time.
  3. markTwain doesn't do everything feedlandHome does (that's the app that forms the UI for FeedLand as you use it now).
  4. So when you assign to the user's prefs, we don't have values for all the things we keep track of for users.
  5. As-written database.setUserPrefs will set the values of all columns, even if they weren't specified by the caller.
  6. This isn't a problem for feedlandHome because it always sends all the values.
  7. But it is a problem for markTwain. So I changed the functionality slightly so that if we don't have a value we don't change it to NULL which is what MySQL would substitute. (I investigate this thoroughly, hopefully.)

markTwain is a placeholder for "all future apps." I could have made MT supply all the values it doesn't do anything with, but this isn't very futuristic. I want to lay a good clean foundation here.

This change should not affect current FeedLand installations, but we should keep an eye out for problems.

I'll post a note in this thread when the changes are deployed.

scripting commented 1 year ago

Good morning!

The new releases of feedland (v0.5.32) and feedlanddatabase (v0.5.12) are out.

I've run the new versions on my test server, and just installed them on feedland.org.

They seem to be running well.

The one change, was as described above, to database.setUserPrefs.