On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:23 AM, James Tait <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 15 May 2014 13:37, Ricardo Kirkner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Pawel Stolowski < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 15.05.2014 12:04, James Tait wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for picking this up, Fabian! >>> >>> >>> On 15 May 2014 00:33, Alejandro J. Cura <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> As I commented earlier, I think this should be part of the >>>> /api/v1/search endpoint, and that those results should be annotated >>>> with "related: true", or "category: related" if they belong to the >>>> recommendations. >>>> Otherwise we would have to do an extra http call to the server, and we >>>> are trying to avoid that to keep the scope responsive. >>>> >>> >>> Agreed. I hadn't realised this was already being worked on, so I >>> haven't spec'd it in the wiki yet, but I think the recommended packages >>> should be returned in the normal packages list from /api/v1/search (so in >>> the top-level list for a raw JSON response, or in the >>> `["_embedded"]["clickindex:package"]` list for HAL+JSON) and tagged >>> appropriately. >>> >>> >> Not sure if this helps, but you could also have a custom rel for the >> recommended packages, so that you keep >> >> _embedded: clickindex:package for the standard package list and >> _embedded: clickindex:recommended for the recommendations >> > > Indeed. I thought about this, then discarded it because my brain was > telling me that the recommendations are still package resources, so they > belong under clickindex:package - essentially, I was thinking of the rel as > a content type, instead of a relation type. Considering it as a relation > type, I actually prefer the separation of matches from recommendations, but > I'll leave it up to the people who will have to parse the result to say > which is easier to work with! > > Thanks, Ricardo! > > Sure thing. In both cases the "content type" would be a package resource, but the relations make it easier to identify/parse the recommended packages. I'd only chose this over the alternative if the recommended packages are not also listed in the default packages list. > JT > -- > James Tait, BSc. | https://launchpad.net/~jamestait/ > Software Engineer, Canonical Online Services > Ubuntu - Linux for human beings | www.ubuntu.com >
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