Re: [PATCH 2/7] flickr: Implement search all elements

[Iago Toral <itoral igalia com>]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:12:09 +0100, "Juan A." Suárez Romero 
<jasuarez igalia com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 07:22 +0000, Iago Toral wrote:
> > On Wed,  2 Feb 2011 21:26:36 +0100, "Juan A. Suarez Romero"
> >  <jasuarez igalia com> wrote:
> > > In case of public Flickr source, as search all is not supported,
> > > search
> > > all will return the latest photos uploaded to Flickr.
> >
> >  Is this consistent? If NULL text search is supposed to return *all
> >  available media*, then shouldn't it do just that?
> >  If it is possible for a user to browse/search media items from the
> >  flickr plugin that are not returned with this implementation for
> >  search(NULL) then we are basically changing the semantics of the
> >  search(NULL) for this plugin and I am not sure that is a good 
> > idea...
>
>
> Yes, it is consistent.
>
> "return latest photos uploaded to Flickr" means that the operation 
> will
> return the photos sorted by upload time.
>
> If you would bee able to do a search with count==infinitum, it would
> return all content from Flickr, sorted by upload time.
>
> Flickr service decided to get rid of search(NULL) and move to
> getRecent(), because at the end both operations will return all
> elements, but in different order. So keeping one of them was enough 
> for
> them.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

Iago