Allow to hide projects per CDN

[jsdelivr]

Allow to hide projects per CDN

[bebraw]

Why do you want to hide projects?

I'll need to think about the implementation a little. Maybe this would be a good time to move to a two-tier architecture where one part deals with syncing data to database and the other depends the same data. Latter represents the current solution except we sync per server.

[jimaek]

Example jsdelivr/jsdelivr#692
We have some other projects like this one too.
And since we plan using this API for our new website we will need a way to hide them from the frontend.

[bebraw]

Ah, like that. If you need it now, tweak the generated PHP the API depends upon.

[jimaek]

Yeah for now its not a problem. But once we switch from the PHP source we will need to remember to add this functionality.

[bebraw]

True.

I wonder how this will work out with AppFog in a tidy way. I suppose I could have an environment variable there with , delimiter. Then you would set something like JSDELIVR_EXCLUDE = highstocks,foobar. If there are a lot of excludes this could get a little painful.

[jimaek]

We can hardcode them in the source. They are not going to change and we dont plan adding new ones too often.

[tomByrer]

Or add another info.ini field, hide, where the default is no (even is not there), & the manual override hide=true makes for easy filtering?

[jimaek]

Yeah nice idea. Whatever will be easier for @bebraw

[bebraw]

Or add another info.ini field, hide, where the default is no (even is not there), & the manual override hide=true makes for easy filtering?

Let's go with that. I was just about to propose the same after I thought through it properly. This approach makes a lot of sense given it's meta information that's useful for others too.

The only gotcha I can see is that this applies only to jsDelivr but that probably isn't much of a problem yet.

[bebraw]

Did you end up adding some sort of metadata for this at the info.inis? I can take that in count at api-sync now.

[jimaek]

Not yet.
We can have a hide = "true" parameter, sounds good?

[tomByrer]

Could have used this to hide a folder; a version was mistaken as v1.1 where it really was v1.0.4: mailcheck/mailcheck#81

I also can see hiding individual files in a folder useful, that would be phase 2 I assume. Though should the API then be
hide = "all"
hide = "badFileInProduction.js"