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==About== | ==About== | ||
* '''Purpose''': list of places from which files may be slurped into the main repository. | * '''Purpose''': list of places from which files may be slurped into the main repository. | ||
| − | ** This exists mainly for legacy and porting purposes. | + | ** This exists mainly for legacy and porting purposes. Maybe it doesn't need to exist at all; it was mainly useful when hosting disk space was limited. |
* '''History''': | * '''History''': | ||
** '''2010-11-15''' Created in order to deal with the fact that we're going to have more than one base URL for images (so we can upload new images to the wiki -- or whatever image server is handy -- and access them directly from there). | ** '''2010-11-15''' Created in order to deal with the fact that we're going to have more than one base URL for images (so we can upload new images to the wiki -- or whatever image server is handy -- and access them directly from there). | ||
Revision as of 00:21, 22 July 2017
About
- Purpose: list of places from which files may be slurped into the main repository.
- This exists mainly for legacy and porting purposes. Maybe it doesn't need to exist at all; it was mainly useful when hosting disk space was limited.
- History:
- 2010-11-15 Created in order to deal with the fact that we're going to have more than one base URL for images (so we can upload new images to the wiki -- or whatever image server is handy -- and access them directly from there).
- 2010-11-16 Decided to rename Spec to PathPart for coding clarity.
- 2017-07-21 Rethinking purpose. Removed ID_Parent, changed MYISAM to InnoDB.
SQL
<mysql> CREATE TABLE `cat_folders` (
ID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, PathPart VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL COMMENT "relative filespec - the part of the path from parent to this file/folder", Descr VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL COMMENT "brief name or description, for choice lists", PRIMARY KEY(`ID`)
) ENGINE = InnoDB;</mysql>
Archive
Information about previous version:
- Purpose: Stores complete information about where files are found and how they can be accessed; sort of a mini-FileFerret.
- Future: This table only manages paths for one particular access method, i.e. the web (and only for read-only access). In the future we might have another table which gives methods for modifying (moving, renaming, adding, deleting) files. Ideally different methods would be consolidated into one more general-purpose table, but this is a task-specific table, so we're not going to do that. Maybe that functionality will be handled by FileFerret, and this app will simply provide links to integrate with that.
<mysql> ID_Parent INT DEFAULT NULL COMMENT "base for this spec",</mysql>