design.md

File Structure Design

current version

download all artworks of specified users, i.e. download everything in gallery folder All

save directory
├── user A
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.jpg
│   ├── image3.jpg
│   ...
├── user B
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.jpg
│   ├── image3.jpg
│   ...
├── ranking A
...

version 1

In addition to current version, add folders to store artworks of given collections

problem: collection names can be identical. For example, these two links, link A and link B, have the same collection name. In such case, the collection folder Magic the Gathering will contain files from two different users, which may cause the update validation to fail.

Suppose there exists two collections, A from user A and B from user B, where the collection names are the same. A contains files [1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg] and B contains files [4.jpg, 2.jpg, 6.jpg, 8.jpg, ...]. After the program downloaded everything from A and begins downloading for B, it will stop at 2.jpg because it has detected that the file already exists on the disk and thus assume that the folder is up-to-date.

potential solution:

• add prefix or suffix to the collection folder names
• disable update and overwrite everything whenever downloading collections (like ranking). This is not a good solution because you will be re-downloading the same files most of the time

save directory
├── user A
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.jpg
│   ├── image3.jpg
│   ...
├── user B
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.jpg
│   ├── image3.jpg
│   ...
├── collection A
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.jpg
│   ├── image3.jpg
│   ...
├── collection B
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.jpg
│   ...
├── ranking A
...

version 2

In addition to current version, add sub-folders in each user folder to store the artworks of the user's collections

note: some user folders will only contain collection folders and no gallery artworks because the users simply have no artworks or you just want the collections.

save directory
├── user A
│   ├── collection A
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ├── collection B
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.jpg
│   ├── image3.jpg
│   ...
├── user B
│   ├── collection A
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.jpg
│   ├── image3.jpg
│   ...
├── ranking A
...

version 3

download specific gallery / collection folders of specified users. For example, instead of downloading everything in gallery folder All, you select which one to download (e.g. Featured)

problem: need to have a new way to store / input users in config.json file, which is going to take a long time to implement as it affects some of the the core functionalities

save directory
├── user A
│   ├── gallery A
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ├── gallery B
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ├── collection A
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ...
├── user B
│   ├── gallery A
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ├── collection A
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ...
├── ranking A
...

version 4

An alternative structure of version 3.

problem: need to have a new way to store / input users in config.json file, which is going to take a long time to implement as it affects some of the the core functionalities

save directory
├── gallery
│   ├── user A gallery A
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ├── user A gallery B
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ...
├── favourites
│   ├── user A collection A
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ├── user A collection B
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.jpg
│   │   ├── image3.jpg
│   │   ...
│   ...
└── ranking
    ├── ranking A
    │   ├── image1.jpg
    │   ├── image2.jpg
    │   ├── image3.jpg
    │   ...
    ├── ranking B
    │   ├── image1.jpg
    │   ├── image2.jpg
    │   ├── image3.jpg
    │   ...
    ...