[DealabsBridge - HotUKDealsBridge - MydealsBridge] Seeking for bridge Parameter advices

[sysadminstory]

Hello !

I open this issue to ask advices about Bridge parameters.

I collected all "groups" of Dealabs, HotUKDeals and Mydeals. Here are the number of groups that was collected (and that could be used in the "group" parameter of those bridges) :

  1758 DealabsBridge.csv
  3119 HotUKDealsBridge.csv
  1922 MydealsBridge.csv

Because of the huge number of "groups" for every bridge, I think it could :

• slow down the browser to handle such a huge <select> element
• slow down the generation of the home page

What is the best solution according to you :

• Keep the "group" parameter as "list" and integrate all the groups ?
• Change the "group" parameter as text, and ask the user to enter the end of the group URL ?

Thanks in advance for any advice !

[em92]

Not a user of those bridges. For suggestion I would recommend to keep backward compatibility (old urls must work).

If you need to implement something that could break backward compatibility, consider to make new context with its own parameters.

[sysadminstory]

Switching the list to a text parameter would not break existing feeds : the actual list value is what the user will have to enter as the text value.

[sysadminstory]

I decided to give it a try with the update of the existing list in the pull request #2083 !