I debated with myself whether to create the home_carousel relation or
rather if it would be better to have a single carousel relation for all
pages. However, i thought that it would be actually harder to maintain
a single relation because i would need an additional column to tell one
carrousel from another, and what would that column be? An enum? A
foreign key to another relation? home_carousel carries no such issues.
I was starting to duplicate logic all over the packages, such as the
way to encode media paths or “localization” (l10n) input fields.
Therefore, i refactorized them.
In the case of media path, i added a function that accepts rows of
media, because always need the same columns from the row, and it was
yet another repetition if i needed to pass them all the time. Plus,
these kind of functions can be called as `table.function`, that make
them look like columns from the table; if PostgreSQL implemented virtual
generated columns, i would have used that instead.
I am not sure whether that media_path function can be immutable. An
immutable function is “guaranteed to return the same results given the
same arguments forever”, which would be true if the inputs where the
hash and the original_filename columns, instead of the whole rows, but
i left it as static because i did not know whether PostgreSQL interprets
the “same row but with different values” as a different input. That is,
whether PostgreSQL’s concept of row is the actual tuple or the space
that has a rowid, irrespective of contents; in the latter case, the
function can not be immutable. Just to be in the safe side, i left it
stable.
The home page was starting to grow a bit too much inside the app
package, new that it has its own admin handler, and moved it all to a
separate package.
I am not happy with the localization interface for admins, but it is the
easier that i could think of (for me, i guess), with a separate for
each language.
I am not at all proud of the use of RecordArray, but i did not see the
need to create and register a type just to show the translation links.
I might change my mind when i need to add more and more translation
links, but only it the current interface remains, which i am not that
sure at the moment.
Since campsite types need a media, i have to insert also images to the
media relation. The best would be to use PostgreSQL’s
pg_read_binary_file to read the media content from actual files when
inserting the new rows, but the files need to be within the database
cluster directory, or have to use an absolute path when running as a
superuser to read from files outside the cluster directory, which means
that it would depend on the path where i leave the files, that is
different in development that in staging.
To avoid that problem i can simply insert the rows using their base64
strings, with PostgreSQL’s decode. The images are kind of small, but
i was worried that each change in demo.sql would duplicate that data in
git, even if the change is not related to the images, because git stores
the whole file; even if small, soon everything adds up.
I do not care if the _final_ demo.sql is big, as this file is packaged
in a different deb and is only installed in staging, so i’ve chosen to
use m4 to build a single “amalgamated” SQL file from the base .sql
file and the individual image files converted to base64 strings. That
way, each image is individually managed by git and the base .sql file
does not balloon up for each little change.
Changed m4’s quotes to [[ ]] because the default ` ' was interfering
with Intellij’s syntax highlighting.
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