[dev] More Ansel share stuff...

Michael Rubinsky mike at theupstairsroom.com
Mon Aug 7 10:44:52 PDT 2006


All the talk about the share driver reminded me of a problem I was  
having with the Ansel api again.  Actually, not really a big problem,  
more of an observation really.  I know that we were saying that we  
really should only be dealing with Datatree_Ids as the only way to get  
Ansel shares...and to really only think of them as gallery_ids.  That  
works great, and I understand the performance reasons for doing so.   
There is still one case, however where this will not work as far as I  
can tell.

If accessing Ansel strictly through the api, it is impossible to list  
shares of only a certain parent share by using the $parent parameter  
of the Ansel::listGalleries() method - unless we already have the  
unique share_name of the parent...which would be unlikely since there  
is currently no way to retrieve it through the Ansel api.  I guess the  
only real solution (unless this functionality isn't seen as that  
important) would be to add another new method to the api to retrieve  
the share_name by datatree_id.  I really don't like the idea of having  
to access the same data by two different keys though...

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Mike



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