Adding a collection_type field to collections

grin · December 7, 2021, 5:06pm

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collection_type field

opened 05:25PM - 29 Nov 21 UTC

consider soon

It would be handy to enforce collection_type s such as 'mixed', 'channels', 'pla…yables', 'photos', etc. because 1) then they can be displayed and filtered by type, 2) a 'channel list' can be made to only include channels, etc. and 3) so that less logic is required to route a collection to its proper display, 4) we don't have to get and inspect every claim to be sure what the type intention was (initially, we load the first (5) claim items). 5) it's impossible to know whether the intent is for a mixed list. Alternative to having a type field: Collections are anything-goes. Collections created on one device force a guess as to the intentions when pulled to another device OR the entire list must be inspected claim by claim.