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Doug Kaye
Sep 21, 2009, 2:57:40 PM9/21/09
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The good news is that SpokenWord.org now allows a program to be
associated with more than one feed. The bad news is that this makes it
unreasonable to support the ?group= argument to the /search method.
The idea of ?group= was that you could ask for a list of programs but
only one per feed. Splitting the mapping of programs to feeds off to a
separate table require an SQL JOIN that's way too slow. Your solution
is to request programs using /search and eliminate programs from the
same feed at your end rather than at the server. FWIW, I've got to do
the same on our site. This is a key feature of how we display lists of
programs using tags and categories.
associated with more than one feed. The bad news is that this makes it
unreasonable to support the ?group= argument to the /search method.
The idea of ?group= was that you could ask for a list of programs but
only one per feed. Splitting the mapping of programs to feeds off to a
separate table require an SQL JOIN that's way too slow. Your solution
is to request programs using /search and eliminate programs from the
same feed at your end rather than at the server. FWIW, I've got to do
the same on our site. This is a key feature of how we display lists of
programs using tags and categories.
I have re-enabled the APIs, so everything should be working. I've also
updated the documentation to show the deprecation of the ?group=
argument.
I'm also considering extending the /program method so that you can get
the additional feeds associated with a program. At the moment, you
only get the 'first' one.
...doug
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