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starlinglab / authenticated-attributes

Authenticated Attributes project by the Starling Lab
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Only upload changed metadata into AA from Uwazi #50

Closed makew0rld closed 7 months ago

makew0rld commented 7 months ago

Currently in the metadata-manager service, the entity metadata gets downloaded, compared to the previous submission, and resent in full if it's not an exact much. This means all metadata (per-entity) gets re-uploaded if any of it has changed, which is a problem because it means the timestamp of old attestations keep shifting. It also increases database size.

Forensically this isn't a problem since the old timestamps are still available due to an append-only log being used. But it's still not the behaviour we want.

basilesimon commented 7 months ago

Alternatively, if the behaviour described above is the one we want, we could also think of "showing the log" in the UI.

makew0rld commented 7 months ago

I think keeping timestamps as old as possible without having to dive into the history of the database is probably simpler and more useful.