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New Feature
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Resolution: Fixed
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On artist pages on the website, we only show release groups containing official releases by default. There's no mechanism to get the same list of "official" release groups via a browse request in the web service – we only support status filtering on /ws/2/release. I propose we support status=official filtering on /ws/2/release-group, too. This should be efficient to implement, since it's stored in the artist_release_group table; I'd limit it to official for now unless people have a solid use case for other types.
This idea came about from SEARCH-667 where user discocat is trying to get the same results via the search server, but can't due to the paged responses being inconsistent.
The final implementation to get the same results as in the "official" view on the MB website is "release-group-status=website-default" (with "all" giving all release groups, same as not actually passing the option). We might add other options in the future ("unofficial" only is trivial, specific statuses a bit less so but still doable) - request as needed.
- has related issue
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SEARCH-667 Missing Release Groups and Inconsistent Responses when Searching Official Release Groups for Artist via API
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CB-140 Show unofficial / bootleg releases in separate tab
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[MBS-12047] Support browsing release groups in /ws/2 as in "official" website index
Yeah, I see a reason to filter by bootlegs: Do you have any idea how hard it is to search for a Dead bootleg amongst all releases? I would want to filter by bootleg and/or unofficial releases and EXCLUDE all official releases.
Keep in mind what we call "official" for RGs is not the same as the "official" status for releases (we also include unknown status, at least). If we implement it like on the site (which seems sensible to me) should we name it in some different way?
The final implementation to get the same results as in the "official" view on the MB website is "release-group-status=website-default" (with "all" giving all release groups, same as not actually passing the option). We might add other options in the future ("unofficial" only, so the opposite of the default MB index, is trivial, specific statuses such as bootleg a bit less so but probably still doable) - request as needed with new tickets.