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  • Feature: 00index.jsonl in FTP Directories

    From Michael J. Ryan@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Wed Oct 19 17:41:55 2022
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/449

    Would be nice if the Directories/Files in each directory was listed in newline delimited JSON [1]. Each line is a record, where non-printable characters, newlines etc are escaped, which is the default for many JSON stringifiers. This would make it easier to programatically mirror content between BBSes.

    Suggested structure...

    ```ts
    {
    type: string; // "group" or "dir" or "file" - maybe just "dir" and "file" since group doesn't mean much here
    path: string; // full ftp path and file/dirname - /main/sbbs/sbbs316c.zip
    name: string; // name only part - sbbs316c.zip
    sdesc: string; // short description - cp437 converted to utf8
    desc: string; // long description - cp437 converted to utf8
    size: number; // bytes
    uploadBy: string; // Username
    uploadOn: string; // ISO-8601 encode date-time of upload "2015-01-01T12:45:00Z"
    }
    ```

    1. http://ndjson.org/

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Oct 19 19:00:52 2022
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/449#note_2785

    I'm very familiar with JSONL (see exec/load/json_lines.js).

    This is an interesting idea and would be pretty trivial to implement, however I don't know of any *consumer* of such meta data.

    If I were to implement this, I would prefer to use a schema that more closely resembles the Synchronet FileBase file-meta-object: https://synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html#FileBase_class_methods

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  • From Michael J. Ryan@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Oct 19 19:03:20 2022
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/449#note_2786

    That structure would be fine w/ me... was only thinking of including details for directories as well as files... but even if only for "dirs" listing just files, would be beneficial.

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