batch::start() before starting a series of events, and batch::stop()
when you're done.
In batch mode, the notification module will store up pending
notifications. When the batch job is complete, it'll send a single
digested email to each user for all of her notifications.
Updated the scaffold and local_import to use this. Haven't modified
SimpleUploader yet.
* Allow for the "movie" type in all of our text
* Try to follow the pattern of mainly only passing ORM objects
to the view and let it generate its own text (this becomes
even more important when 3rd parties want to customize notification
messages)
* Rename _send_message to be _notify_subscribers to be more acccurate
and have it explicitly take a subject in the API
* Use Item_Model::url() in the views instead of hand crafting URLs
* Reformat HTML in views
* Use $comment->author_xxx() functions instead of replicating that code
* Fix several places where we were encoding data by doing ucfirst($item->type)
with conditionals where we form the text properly. We should *never*
be showing data types to the end user! This is not localizable!
Note that this probably breaks the existing batch processing code. I
am going to redo that in a subsequent pass.
Starting a batch call batch::operation(name, item). In the case of
adding photos name = add and item is the parent of the new items.
When the operation is finished the batch::end_operation(name) is
called.
operation and end_operation events are called. Handlers
(i.e. item_created) can call batch::in_progress(name) to determine if
a batch is being processed.
start_batch and end_batch add and remove the batch id from the
session. Modules wishing to do batch processing, just need to fire
the start_batch and end_batch events. Other modules that need to be
aware of batches (i.e. notifications) just check the session for "batch_id".
events: start_add_batch and end_add_batch. The parameter is a batch
id which is generated on the first add request. The protocol is call
the add_photo as many times as required and then call finish when
done.
Also renamed the add method in local_import to add_photo so it is
consistent with simple_uploader
1) move the rand_key column into core
2) don't do a max rand, just try to a get a random number less than
the current random number if that doesn't successd look the other way
1) Upload requests are serialized so we don't over load the server or get
race conditions occurring.
2) new albums are created based on the file structure of the
authorized path that is the source directory.
