RE: [Pyblosxom-devel] Supporting comments, etc.

[Blake W. <bl...@ph...>]

> Responding to some comments from Wari, Our Glorious Leader:
> > I need an API for storage.
> 
> Okay, here's a first pass at the storage api.
> ----------------->8 storageApi.py 8<--------------------
> """
> This module defines the api that any class implementing storage must
> conform to.
> """
> class Storage:
> 
>     # Storage types.
>     COMMENT         = 1
>     TRACKBACK       = 2
>     PINGBACK        = 3
>     SENT_TRACKBACK  = 4
>     SENT_PINGBACK   = 5
> 
>     def allFilter( entry ):
>         return true
> 
>     def get( self, type, entryId, filter=allFilter ):
>         # Returns a list of all the data for that entry,
>         # filtered by the filter.
>         pass
> 
>     def store( self, type, entryId, data ):
>         # Stores a bit of data of the specified type for the
>         # passed-in entry.
>         pass
> 
>     def search( self, searchTerm, type=None, entryId=None ):
>         # Searches in the specified type and entry (if supplied)
>         # for data containing the passed-in search term.
>         pass
> ----------------->8 storageApi.py 8<--------------------

And some day I'll remember to not hold down the Control key when
I hit enter.  Anyways, what I wanted to say was:

1) Does this fulfill all of our needs in terms of storing and
   retrieving comments/trackbacks/pingbacks/etc?

2) Is it easy enough to use, or can it be made easier?

3) Is it reasonable to implement, or nigh impossible?

I think most of the trickyness would come in writing filters.
Oh, and there's currently no simple way to sort the data, but
if we returned the bit of data as a tuple containing the type,
and whatever else we could parse out, then a sorter would be
fairly simple to write.

Any and all comments appreciated.

Later,
Blake.