files_filtered question (ImageFileCollection)

[SaOgaz]

Tangentially related to #595, the way I see most people use hselect is to return the table style output after filtering by some keyword values. I can't see from the documentation, is there an easy way to take the return list of filenames from files_filtered and return an updated table based on that filter? It seems like if I were going to use built in Table methods to do this I would have the user skip straight to filtering the first table return, and not use files_filtered at all. But maybe this was the intention all along?

I guess what I'm really asking is, are there plans to write a table_filtered method, and if not, what's the reasoning to having a 'files_filtered' and not a `table_filtered'? Just thinking out loud here, apologies if these seems overly critical.

[MSeifert04]

I was thinking about making a filter that just returns a filtered ImageFileCollection with filtered summary, but I haven't got the time yet. I'll see if I can add that soon-ish.

[mwcraig]

The interesting thing is that the table is filtered, sort of. files_filtered and the generators (.hdus and friends) set a mask on the file column to do their work. Will try something quick to see if I can make summary reflect that.

If so I might add a "clear filters" or "clear masks" method to reset.

[mwcraig]

Decision is to implement a filter method that uses the new initialize-from-list feature in #680