Week 9

Welcome to this week’s blog. This week was a busy one due to my college workload, but I mostly focused on enhancing the webpage. I worked on the configuration page, the manual merge dashboard, filtering, search-related improvements, and more.

• Configuration Page:
  I added a new configuration page that allows users to customize their preferences, including:

  • Number of filesets per page

  • Number of logs per page

  • Column width percentages for the fileset search page

  • Column width percentages for the log page

  All these preferences are stored in cookies for persistence.

  

• Manual Merge Dashboard:
  I performed some refactoring of the codebase for manual merging. Additionally, I added options to:

  • Show either all files or only the common ones

  • Display either all fields of the files, or just the full-size MD5 and size (or size-rd in the case of Mac files)

• Search Functionality:
  I improved the search system with the following features:

  • Exact match: Values wrapped in double quotes are matched exactly

  • OR search: Multiple terms separated by spaces are treated as an OR

  • AND search: Terms separated by + are treated as an AND

• Sorting Enhancements:
  The sorting feature now includes three states for each column: ascending, descending, and default (unsorted).

Minor Fixes & Improvements

• Added favicon to display on the webpage tab
• Implemented checksum-based filtering in the fileset search page
• Included metadata information in seeding logs (unless --skiplog is passed)

Goals for Next Week

• Add GitHub-based authentication
• Implement a three-tier user system: admin, moderator, and read-only
• Add validation checks on user data to prevent brute force attacks
• Refactor the entire project into a Python module for better structure and cleaner imports