api inconsistencies

Last post 11-06-2009 12:55 by scottgorlin. 0 replies.
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  • scottgorlin 11-06-2009 12:55

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    api inconsistencies

    Hi,

    I'm poking around v 1.2 and notice a few things that seem odd.

    For instance:

    I can get photoset title photos but not group title photos (one thread said it was implemented, but it's not working for me)

    I can GetPopularPhotos but 1) I can't specify a user and 2) can't get Views for my own photos to do the same thing manually, though I can get views for photosets.  Same with GetPopularSets, and GetRecentPhotos (though at least I can manually get recent ones since the timestamps are returned in the objects)

    I'm a bit confused by the object hierarchy, since both PhotoSet and Group share some fields that could be part of GroupElement (and share some with Photo as well, ie Caption) - but perhaps I'm just being persnickety.  Maybe there's a backend difference that's irrelevant to the API?

    I can set some items but not get them - ie CustomReference.  I understand the rationale for the other way around - but this just seems silly :)

    There is no option to load the group hierarchy with photosets/photos intact.  I can obviously recurse the tree, but this takes awhile since each call takes a second or so (though I hacked a nifty routine to parallelize this) but it would be much simpler to just send 1 request.

    Any plans to address the above?  Or perhaps I'm confused about some of them?  Are the docs fully up to date with 1.2?

    Thanks,

    Scott

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