Re: [GMG-Devel] Tags/Collections for batchaddmedia

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Awesome, thanks for the patch!

Dan Krol writes:

> Okay, I'm guessing that the reason tags weren't added to batchaddmedia is
> that submit_media takes a string parameter for tag names rather than the
> corresponding tag objects. This means that submit_media would likely be
> querying for the same tags over and over again, which is very inefficient.
> So, it's maybe worth splitting out a function underneath submit_media that
> takes the tag objects, which submit_media calls on? Do you all have a
> recommended way to do this, that's in line with your code's organization? I
> assume just adding tag_objects and collection_objects parameters would
> muddy up submit_media's interface.

I think that should be possible.  We could just add another keyword
argument to submit_media that takes tag objects.

> For my own purposes I can just do it the inefficient way for now, if
> there's not a great answer for this. Here's what it looks like at the
> moment (forked from v0.8.0 fo rnow), and it seems to work:
> https://github.com/orblivion/mediagoblin/compare/853b74cd813b3dea3ac351256b3ce1730664d7f9...batchaddmedia-collection-tag

Yay!

If you wanted to do the more efficient route, I'd quite happily accept a
patch/branch and merge it.