Provide a Categories API endpoint that allows us to learn the hierarchical structure of Categories (parents/children).

[cswendrowski]

In GitLab by @telescopesd on Jun 12, 2020, 18:05

As of right now, categories you can import are all over the place. Despite in World Anvil, some categories being sub-categories of a parent category, Foundry does not represent this, despite having support for multiple folders in one folder. It would be nice if WAI would allow you to import a category and sub-category without having to adjust the folders yourself. Additionally, categories in World Anvil with no articles in them (but have sub-categories within) do not display on the WAI list.

[cswendrowski]

This should be possible, but in order to support it we will need a Categories API from World Anvil so we can learn the hierarchical structure. Currently we don't get that metadata so this will be a request for Dimitris!

[cswendrowski]

In GitLab by @admiralnlson on Nov 22, 2020, 04:23

Note WA has a hierarchical structure for Categories, but for Articles also.

Foundry's WAI imports child articles successfully. However they are currently listed as category-less even when the parent article is part of a category (which in WA automatically means all child articles are part of that category too).

Dimitris may need to add article parent/child info to the WA API as well.

[cswendrowski]

I'm not certain whether this is present in the WA provided data and it simply meeds to be handled better in Foundry, or whether the hierarchical relationships are not present in the API output that comes from WA. Needs investigation. Certainly Foundry could support hierarchical categories up to a certain maximum depth via the folder structure that the entries import into.