[Ocs] Proposal: Update handling for the lists

[Laszlo Papp]

Frank, can we add this then?

Laszlo

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:42 PM, 梁辰晔 <liangchenye at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, I miss understand your purpose of adding this.
> You are right.
> David
> 2012/8/31 Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org>
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:56 AM, 梁辰晔 <liangchenye at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think it will bring confusion to add 'afterdate'.
>>> For example,
>>>     list with page=1, pagesize=10, afterdate = yesterday, search=foo.
>>> Your mean:
>>>     the server should 1) search item=foo
>>>                              2) find page=1&pagesize=10
>>>                              3) find afterdate item
>>> But the first impression (for me):
>>>     the server should 1) search item=foo & find afterdate item
>>>                               2) find page=1&pagesize=10
>>
>>
>> I hope I understand your point correctly, but please feel free to correct
>> me if I am mistaken. :-)
>>
>> I believe the specific search method on the server side is better left to
>> the servers. If we decide about the priority then we may provide slower or
>> faster (or not even possible at times) functionality in certain cases. It
>> depends on the specific instance what the optimized way is for collecting
>> the data output.
>>
>> As from OCS specification documentation point of view, the page and
>> pagesize arguments are always the last parameters in the parameter list as
>> far as I see. Hope, that would somewhat help with dismissing your confusion.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> How about add another URL to work with it
>>> URL Arguments: ids - Ids of the requested content ids seperated by "x".
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, we do not know the ids for the entries that were added or
>> modified. We would need a separate query for getting the updated items, but
>> that requires a query (i.e. bit slower from the client point of view), and
>> that would not allow "advanced" search either what we may need if we would
>> like to get the updated for a filtered list.
>>
>> Laszlo
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