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Originally posted by JayG
Unless you do the filtering at the receiving end. Sure, it would be nice to do it at the serving end and reduce traffic, but you could leave the "who has this" function unchanged and implement the filtering when the returned list is formatted for display. |
We cannot do the filtering at the receiving end, because the query is also matched against the pathname - and that is not included in the result. A search for "artist - album - song title" may return a file named "song title.ogg". We would filter results like that, too.
Here are the operators, I had in mind so far....
+keyword : require keyword in filename (not just in the path or the meta data)
-keyword : require keyword NOT to occur in file- or pathname
!keyword : require exact keyword in filename ('!avi' will not match 'david')
"string of characters" : requires "string of characters" to occur in file- or pathname.
Note that it won't be possible to include a logical OR so easily - and personally, I don't really believe a logical OR is very useful.