How to find same project, different CDN, different "name" field?

[jsdelivr]

How to find same project, different CDN, different "name" field?

[bebraw]

Hi,

It's very unfortunate CDNs don't use the official naming. What if we implemented something to figure out the official name (ie. match libraries based on links) and then rename them all? Then you could use the same name to refer to them.

Also we could do something like a global search to make it easier to figure out where a particular library is available (ie. /v1/libraries?name=ember). I'm not exactly sure what that would return (array of objects with cdn -> library mapping?). This is a separate issue, though.

[jimaek]

So something like this?

    {
        "name": "99lime",
        "normname": "99lime"
    },
    {
        "name": "accounting.js",
        "normname": "accounting"
    }

Basically create a parameter normname where we store the name but without js and dots. I just think we will run into lots of issue this way. Maybe regex would be a better solution?

[tomByrer]

"Official" naming can be tricky, since @jdalton named the repo https://github.com/lodash/lodash & homepage http://lodash.com/ but he will correct people to say "Lo-Dash". I'm the one who setup jsDeliv IIRC & picked the repo name, but not sure who set up CDNJS as lodash.js
So maybe an alias-array? How many lo-dash searches do you get at www.jsdelivr.com/?

I was going to compare the repositories field since (aside from moving the project) they should be the same, but you guys didn't grab that field from cdnjs :`(

Basically create a parameter normname where we store the name but without js and dots

That could work. You'll need to remove or transform+?wildcard all dashes & dots also, eg:
http://api.jsdelivr.com/v1/cdnjs/libraries?name=jquery-scrollTo
http://api.jsdelivr.com/v1/jsdelivr/libraries?name=jquery.scrollTo
If so, would the default for searches would have to be on normname, unless ?name= is used?

[jimaek]

I think we can add the missing repository parameter to cdnjs. That would help a lot I think.

But I really dislike the idea of normalized names. For example jsDelivr can have a project named as jquery.pluginName but cdnjs just pluginName.

[tomByrer]

add the missing repository parameter to cdnjs

Thanks! BTW, what happens if the repo is not on github, since jsDelivr doesn't (seem to) encourage other repos? Not too many don't use github, 1-2% when I checked last summer, but may change in future. Eg CDNJS:

"repositories": [{
  "type": "svn",
  "url": "http://google-diff-match-patch.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/"
}],

I really dislike the idea of normalized names. For example jsDelivr can have a project named as jquery.pluginName but cdnjs just pluginName

Good point, may get worse as there are more plugins for Angular, React, etc

[jimaek]

jsDelivr does not require for the project to be on Github. You can simply leave that parameter empty if the project is hosted elsewhere.

[shahata]

Maybe the bower component name can be used as the 'official name'.
It would be extremely helpful to me if I could query using the bower name.

[bebraw]

@shahata That could be nice pick for number one name. If that's missing maybe go with NPM, then / (GitHub), then current name? Issue #13 discusses this approach.

[GeorgeErickson]

A good search index implementation should handle this.

[tomByrer]

@GeorgeErickson yes @bebraw wrote one that weighs exact match well. Perhaps there should be some fuzzy searching, dropping any - | _ | . | .js | .css.

[megawac]

Related to #78 /cc @tomByrer

[jimaek]

#78