Subj : FileBase - Add to batch downloads?
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jan 26 2022 13:59:48

  Re: FileBase - Add to batch downloads?
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:31 am

 > Hi DM,
 >
 > Synchronet's JS object model has had bbs.batch_add_list() for a while now.
 > With each file in the list, it has to search the whole file database to see
 > if and where the file exists in the filebases.
 >
 > Now that there is a FileBase class, I'm wondering if it would make sense for
 > the FileBase class to have a similar batch_add function, for files just
 > within that filebase?  I've been working on a lightbar file lister, and if
 > the user wants to add one of the files in that filebase to their batch
 > download queue, I was thinking it might make sense for the FileBase class to
 > have its own batch_add function, so that Synchronet wouldn't have to search
 > through all of the filebases for that file.
 >
 > If there already is such a function in the FileBase class, I'm not seeing it
 > in the current documentation..  Maybe I missed it?
 > http://www.synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html#FileBase_class

No, there isn't a per-base "add to batch download queue" method (yes, I could add one pretty easily). However, the batch lists are now just .ini files (for details, see https://wiki.synchro.net/history:newfilebase#batches), so adding/removing files to the queue from a JS module should be pretty trivial. I'm pretty sure you know the File class has methods for dealing with .ini files.
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