[Booki-dev] list-books.json

[adam hyde]

can we request books for specific booki groups? 

I have been pondering this with the Booki Publisher - I need a way to
list available books in a groups so that I can then pull them from booki
on demand...

adam



On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 12:01 +1000, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 15:48, Douglas Bagnall <douglas at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > On 12/08/10 16:47, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> >
> > Ah yes, though he uses slightly different information and wants it to
> > be sensibly formatted, whereas I aimed for a small lazy patch as a
> > prototype.
> 
> :)
> 
> > while mine currently looks like this:
> >
> > [
> >  {
> >    "pk": 14,
> >    "model": "editor.book",
> >    "fields": {
> >        "url_title": "firefox",
> >        "title":     "FIREFOX"
> >    }
> >  }
> > ]
> >
> > That weird stuff like "pk" is Django's idea.  "url_title" is the Booki
> > term for the book's ID in url space.
> 
> Yah, common across django apps
> 
> > It should be simple enough to unify the two, though it could be
> > expensive on the Booki side (because it would mean pulling in the
> > metadata table to get author names), and I'm not entirely sure how
> > Andy's epub urls would be calculated.
> 
> I think the best strategy is to have creation at save/publish time.
> Potentially as another object that's associated with any particular
> book?
> 
> Creating the json entry at publish/save time means that:
>  - url can be created correctly (looks like a YYYY.MM.DD.HH.MM.SS
> format, presumably from the time published/saved)
>  - authors list will be up to date. Note that this is something that
> we should think about removing from the iphone app given the potential
> number of authors...
>  - reduce server/booki load by creating them as it happens rather than
> all at once.
> 
> cheers
> L.
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