Re: Filtering by type

[Iago Toral <itoral igalia com>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:49:03 +0000, Iago Toral <itoral igalia com> 
wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:24:08 +0100, "Juan A." Suárez Romero
> <jasuarez igalia com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 14:58 +0000, Iago Toral wrote:
> > >  So summing up, my opinion is that we should discard the idea of
> > >  filtering using flags and focus only on adding the filter API. 
> > > Sorry
> > >  that I did not mention this explicitly in the email were I 
> > > proposed
> > > to
> > >  add a filtering API, I thought it would be obvious that it was
> > > intended
> > >  to be a complement of this option.
> >
> >
> > The proposal was a quick way of restricting results to a type of 
> > objects
> > that I'm interesting it, with no changes in the api. And it wasn't
> > intended as an alternative or replacement of your proposal. In this
> > case, for other types of filter (by date, by artist, whatever), user
> > would need to use your proposal.
>
> Once you realize that you need to change the API to cover the basic
> cases, a proposal that does not change the API and cover less than 
> the
> basic cases does not make sense any more.

Just in case my point is not clear: the idea of using the flags was ok 
until the moment we realized we needed to change the API and add support 
for more things. At that point, the flags idea stopped making sense any 
more, because its main purpose was to prevent the API change and the 
thing it resolved was a subset of what the filter API would permit 
anyway.

Iago