Howdy, folks!
tl;dr - Are there any best practices for managing concurrently related
blips via the robot that created them?
I'm trying to wrap my head around this scenario and I can't tell if
I'm finding bugs in the API or merely misunderstanding it. Before I
get to those I'll setup a little background on the robot.
I'm making a Wave interface for my character profile/sketch app. The
robot takes the wavelet's title and uses it as the profile's name. It
then breaks each element (age, appearance, etc.) into a separate blip
and records the section in the first line of the blip (similar to the
wavelet title annotation). Edits made are saved into the database.
Displaying and editing works fine but deleting blips (specifically so
the user can refresh the wave to pull changes made on the main site
without being forced to create a new wave) has been the death of me.
At first I would create blips via wavelet.CreateBlip() and then delete
the blips when the wavelet title changed (i.e. the user wanted to load
a new profile) and that would work so long as I didn't create any new
blips (this is one of the bugs I think I found) if I did then nothing
would happen.
My second attempt is to use buttons so the user has to manually clear
the blips, but the context that gets passed doesn't include the blips
created through the wavelet (at least not that I can find) so then I
used root_blip.CreateChild() and this works programmatically but (this
is where the thread title comes from) the first child is placed at the
same indentation level as the root_blip and subsequent blips are
indented one level between it and the root_blip (the second potential
bug I've found).
Additionally, I tried inline blips and that works too but each blip
gets it's own speech bubble and deleting them leaves a large empty
space. I just thought to try an inline blip with children but it's
late and Wave isn't cooperating. If deleting the parent blip deletes
the children this may be a viable option. But I'd still like some
feedback =D
Optimally I'd like to store a list of the blipID's in a data document
and never have to delete and recreate blips, but the blip IDs the
Python API creates are just placeholder IDs ("TBD_googlewave...").
Thanks for any help you can offer!
~ Patrick
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