Filter gists by fileName

[mindrones]

Just an idea, but it just occurred to me that it could be useful to search for gists containing a file with a specific name, for example a meta file that always has the same name, for example "meta.json" for the Svelte REPL (an example here https://gist.github.com/mindrones/1d8a53bf15e8033a62cca847274286aa#file-meta-json).

[jvcalderon]

Could be useful. Maybe I could implement it next week. If you have a concrete idea of implementation, a test defining the interface or something else, feel free to share it by pull request. Thank you!

[mindrones]

Basically Svelte REPL saves examples as gists and we're trying to retrieve all public examples that people have written.

For example, this example https://svelte.technology/repl?version=2.15.0&gist=1d8a53bf15e8033a62cca847274286aa is based on this gist https://gist.github.com/mindrones/1d8a53bf15e8033a62cca847274286aa.
As you can see, these gists have a meta.json file currently just containing the object {"svelte": true}, forcing us to search these gists by content, which is proving difficult.

Hence, I'm thinking that we might just change that convention and call that meta file svelte.json so that we wouldn't have to fetch and inspect all files in a gist: we would just have to fetch files named svelte.json and check if they're Svelte REPL meta files.

An example API could could be:

.getAll({
    filterBy: [
        {hasFileWithName: "svelte.json"}, // tier: resource
    ]
})

Being tier resource we wouldn't be able to mix with userName and starred but we can filter the result later on.

Hope this helps, thanks!

[jvcalderon]

I just added the functionality in this commit Its now available in version 1.1.0. Now you can do (for example):

gistClient.getAll({
      rawContent: true,
      filterBy: [
          {userName: "mindrones"},
          {filename: "data.json5"},
      ]
  })

Thank you for your feedback @mindrones

[mindrones]

Hi @jvcalderon, I just tried it and works perfectly thanks a lot for implementing it!