User Story #10926 (closed)
Opened 11 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
Handling of companion files in clients and server
| Reported by: | bpindelski | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | 5.0.1 |
| Component: | Services | Keywords: | fs |
| Cc: | fs@…, web-team@… | Story Points: | n.a. |
| Sprint: | n.a. | Importance: | n.a. |
| Total Remaining Time: | n.a. | Estimated Remaining Time: | n.a. |
Description
On dev_4_4 companion files (which are a file annotation) are linked to the image (PixelsOriginalFileMap?). This doesn't happen anymore on develop. The companion file now is linked to the same fileset id as the image being imported. According to Jean-Marie, this will increase the number of calls that the client will need to do to retrieve the companion file (don't confuse with original metadata) - first to get the fileset id from the images, then use that to get the companion file. This problem might also impact analysis or tables files attached to images.
SOLUTIONS
This has to be fixed in 3 places: server, Web and Insight. A decision has to be made how the companion files are retrieved so that the clients aren't blocked with an unnecessary high amount of method calls.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by jamoore
comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by jamoore
More advanced method to look at: getAdvancedSeriesUsedFiles(boolean noPixels). Should we support companion files per image in the series (i.e. MIF)? If so, this likely means adding "int seriesIndex" and "boolean companion" to the FilesetEntry table for each OriginalFile in the Fileset.
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by jburel
- Priority changed from minor to blocker
boosting to blocker, regression
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by agilo
- Status changed from new to accepted
Updated status, related task in progress
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by jamoore
- Milestone changed from 5.x to 5.0.1
- Resolution set to fixed
- Sprint FS demo 4.x deleted
- Status changed from accepted to closed
Initial work done in previous milestones. Migrated to https://trello.com/c/i070ldxV/47-fileinfo-companion-series-indices for future work.
See getUsedFiles(boolean noPixels) If noPixels is set to true, then the files returned from Bio-Formats will not contain pixel data, i.e. companion files. Even these can be quite large in some instances and not something that should/could be shown to users without a special UI.