On 8/13/13 10:43 PM, Christian wrote:
On 13.08.2013 09:20, Karsten Loesing wrote:
On 8/12/13 10:56 PM, Christian wrote:
I've seen that you've included the field parameter to limit the fields that onionoo returns. Do you think it would be better to use the field parameter and show a limited amount of data or try to get everything and only display the fields that have a value?
You mean for details pages? I'd say display everything that has a value. Unless I didn't understand your question.
But here's something else that just came to mind that you could do with the fields parameter: in the search part, instead of sending a request for the summary document, just request the details documents, but only ask for the fields you're planning to display in the table. Once the user wants to see the details page, you'll have to fetch the full details for that relay or bridge. But you should be able to save quite a few requests and make the client application even more responsive.
That's a gread idea. I just implemented it in a new branch and it works so far. Without any futher testing it looks like the size for a single detail request went from ~1.9KB to ~1KB.
Hmm, when you say "single detail request", I wonder if I explained my idea correctly. Let me try again, this time with an example:
Assume somebody searches for "gab". This currently generates the following requests to Onionoo:
[10:32:16.950] GET https://onionoo.torproject.org/summary?limit=50&search=gab [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 141ms] [10:32:17.108] GET https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?lookup=A79E50FC2C7C8B19D44778C39BD3B5... [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 140ms] [10:32:17.110] GET https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?lookup=B94F71EA1A0D7E904200A20C9063B0... [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 280ms] [10:32:17.111] GET https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?lookup=16EF359C2FBF50FC08CF9A95717BE3... [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 417ms]
My idea was to turn these requests into a single request:
https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?limit=50&search=gab&fields=ni...
And once somebody wants to look at gabelmoo's details, just download the full details document, plus bandwidth and weights for the graphs:
[10:32:17.111] GET https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?lookup=16EF359C2FBF50FC08CF9A95717BE3... [HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified 417ms] [10:36:44.356] GET https://onionoo.torproject.org/weights?lookup=16EF359C2FBF50FC08CF9A95717BE3... [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 686ms] [10:36:44.357] GET https://onionoo.torproject.org/bandwidth?lookup=16EF359C2FBF50FC08CF9A95717B... [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 442ms]
All the best, Karsten