channel name search on file list only works if the channel is resolved

[tzarebczan]

The file list won't return if you haven't resolved the channel.

We know that file * needs some love, and at some point we wanted to make the claim data inside the metadata to be consistent with resolve/claim search (can't find the issue for this, maybe was never filed or under a different name).

[belikor]

If I understand what you mean by making the metadata consistent, I was also wondering about the type of information that is returned by different methods.

With resolve

import requests
server = "http://localhost:5279"  
uri = "samsodysee1:d"
msg = {"method": "resolve", 
       "params": {"urls": uri}}
output = requests.post(server, json=msg).json()
result = output["result"][uri]

print(result.keys())
dict_keys(['address', 'amount', 'canonical_url', 'claim_id', 'claim_op', 'confirmations', 'height', 'is_channel_signature_valid', 'meta', 'name', 'normalized_name', 'nout', 'permanent_url', 'short_url', 'signing_channel', 'timestamp', 'txid', 'type', 'value', 'value_type'])

With claim_search

name = "samsodysee1"
msg2 = {"method": "claim_search",
        "params": {"claim_name": name}}
output2 = requests.post(server, json=msg2).json()
result2 = output2["result"]["items"][0] 
result2 = result2["reposted_claim"]

print(result2.keys())
dict_keys(['address', 'amount', 'canonical_url', 'claim_id', 'claim_op', 'confirmations', 'height', 'is_channel_signature_valid', 'meta', 'name', 'normalized_name', 'nout', 'permanent_url', 'short_url', 'signing_channel', 'timestamp', 'txid', 'type', 'value', 'value_type'])

With file_list

name = "samsodysee1"
msg3 = {"method": "file_list", 
        "params": {"claim_name": name}}
output3 = requests.post(server, json=msg3).json()
result3 = output3["result"]["items"][0]

print(result3.keys())
dict_keys(['added_on', 'blobs_completed', 'blobs_in_stream', 'blobs_remaining', 'channel_claim_id', 'channel_name', 'claim_id', 'claim_name', 'completed', 'confirmations', 'content_fee', 'download_directory', 'download_path', 'file_name', 'height', 'is_fully_reflected', 'key', 'metadata', 'mime_type', 'nout', 'outpoint', 'points_paid', 'protobuf', 'purchase_receipt', 'reflector_progress', 'sd_hash', 'status', 'stopped', 'stream_hash', 'stream_name', 'streaming_url', 'suggested_file_name', 'timestamp', 'total_bytes', 'total_bytes_lower_bound', 'txid', 'uploading_to_reflector', 'written_bytes'])

The third method file_list returns much more data, but it also lacks some information, for example, it does not have 'canonical_url', and the 'channel_name' is just a string or None, while 'signing_channel' has more information.