[aur-dev] [PATCH] Extended JSON query method

[eliott]

On 6/5/08, Simo Leone <simo at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:14:22AM -0400, Loui wrote:
>  > This is a different patch from the one in the bug tracker
>  > (implementation looks a little cleaner). Do you have the same qualms
>  > about this one? I think there should be a way of specifying more info
>  > in the search. What's good about this method is that it will only
>  > return what's needed, no more, no less.
>  >
>
> I think it adds needless complexity, why not just return all data on the
>  specified packages?

That was my argument in the bugtracker ticket also.

Making on the fly decisions about what to return for simple select queries is:
1) more expensive than just returning all fields
2) makes it harder for the mysql query cacher to cache it
3) would make it harder for any potential future memcache layer to cache it

And this appears at a first look to be doing the same thing as the
other ticket, that is: passing in which fields the client wants back,
and selecting only those fields from the table, then returning them to
the client.

I don't see how it is a different implementation. Things just got
moved around a bit.