Re: num_entries should not apply to category views

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 19:50 -0400, will wrote:
> I'm coming from the point of view of "what should a default PyBlosxom 
> installation without any plugins do" and "how can we implement this so 
> that it's convenient to modify the behavior with plugins"?
> 
> 
> I think I'm of the mind that a default PyBlosxom installation with no 
> plugins should work like this:
> 
> * root page shows num_entries number of entries
> 
> * paths that start with a date (date-based archives) or category 
> (category-based archives) show all entries that fall in that archive 
> (i.e. no num_entries truncating)
> 
> 
> This allows archives access like chombee is suggesting (which while I 
> wouldn't want it on my blog, it seems decent).  The only problem is that 
> entries in the root category past the num_entries point will only be 
> accessible by date-base archives, but I'm not sure I care about that much.
> 
> 
> PyBlosxom 2.0 (still in development) has a truncatelist callback which 
> makes it trivial to modify the truncation behavior with plugins.
> 
> For example, if we mark the paths that we consider to be archives (which 
> I think is a good idea in light of this conversation), then we can 
> implement truncation of archives with a plugin like this:
> 
>     def cb_truncatelist(args):
>         req, entry_list = args["request"], args["entry_list"]
> 
>         if req.data.get("archives", False) and \
>                 req.config.get("num_entries", 0):
>             return entry_list[:req.config["num_entries"]]
> 
> Variations on that are also possible.  I imagine I'll use the 
> truncatelist callback in wbgpager to modify the truncation behavior if I 
> haven't already done so--it'd be easier than the num_entries munging I 
> originally wrote.
> 
> Does that setup cause problems?

This looks good to me.



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