Re: [Back on]: [RFC] Adding sort parameter

[Iago Toral <itoral igalia com>]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:17:14 +0000, Lionel Landwerlin 
<lionel g landwerlin linux intel com> wrote:
> > One additional thing we should figure is what will happen when users 
> > try
> > to use the sorting interface passing keys that are not supported for
> > sorting by the source.
> >
> > I think the core should check the keys passed by the user against 
> > the
> > ones supported by the source and drop the ones that don't match 
> > (maybe
> > logging a warning or a debug message about it) before delagating the
> > work the plugin. This way we ensure that plugins only get keys they
> > support and do not have to check for this.
>
> We could provide the user a "tool" function which take his sorting
> parameters and the source to query/browse/search, and do the 
> filtering
> on sorting parameters, that way the user can avoid warning messages 
> from
> the core and also be aware of dropped sorting keys (if he wants to
> know).

Yeah, I guess we can add something like that too.

Iago