On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org> wrote: > Excerpts from Walter Bender's message of Fri Oct 08 01:45:21 +0200 2010: > >> I am struggling with getting my activities to behave in consistent >> ways when using the chooser and datastore.find() between Sugar 0.84 >> and more recent Sugar versions. (For example, I cannot get find() to >> process mime-type query in 0.84 but it will handle a title query. > > You can see the full list in src/carquinyol/indexstore.py (0.90 [1], > 0.88 [2], 0.86 [3], 0.84 [4]) resp. src/olpc/datastore/model.py for > 0.82 [5]. > > 0.90 (see _QUERY_TERM_MAP and _QUERY_VALUE_MAP): > uid, activity, activity_id, mime_type, keep, timestamp, filesize, > creation_time > > 0.86-0.88 (see _QUERY_TERM_MAP and _QUERY_VALUE_MAP): > uid, activity, activity_id, mime_type, keep, timestamp > > 0.84 (see _parse_query): > uid, activity, activity_id, mime_type (list), keep, timestamp (start/end > dict) > > 0.82 (see defaultModel): > activity, activity_id, mime_type, keep, timestamp, title and a whole > bunch more > > So mime_type should work fine in 0.84+ if you pass it as a list. > sugar-datastore 0.86+ is more flexible regarding the contents of the > query dictionary, so what works there does not necessarily work in 0.84. > In particular 0.86+ will do what you expect if you pass a (single) MIME > type as a regular string, but 0.84 requires you to pass a list (containing > a single regular string). Because a string is iterable, 0.84 won't > notice you didn't pass a list and will happily match each individual > character against the MIME type field. > >> The exact opposite seems to be true in 0.90. > > AFAICT searching (!= sorting) title was never supported for 0.84+. > > >> Similarly, I cannot get what_filter to work with non-GENERIC mime types, > > Yes, I recently filed a ticket about that [6]. > > >> I've searched unsuccessfully for documentation on what works in which >> versions. Does such documentation exist somewhere? > > Maybe Bert has documented some of it in the wiki. It would be great if > you could either augment his documentation or create a new one based on > the information above.
Thanks. I'll write a test program to confirm all of the above and put the results in the wiki. -walter > > Sascha > > [1] > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-datastore/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/carquinyol/indexstore.py > [2] > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-datastore/repos/mainline/blobs/sucrose-0.88/src/carquinyol/indexstore.py > [3] > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-datastore/repos/mainline/blobs/sucrose-0.86/src/carquinyol/indexstore.py > [4] > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-datastore/repos/mainline/blobs/sucrose-0.84/src/carquinyol/indexstore.py > [5] > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-datastore/repos/mainline/blobs/sucrose-0.82/src/olpc/datastore/model.py > [6] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2400 > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel