Feature Request: export another json with breadcrumbs metadata?

[chrisgrieser]

long term only, but using the Breadcrumbs API, one could also export data on the breadcrumbs index to navigate it via Alfred 👀

https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/855181471643861002/942003316123119646

[kometenstaub]

https://skepticmystic.github.io/breadcrumbs/interfaces/BCAPII.html#getMatrixNeighbours

That would probably make the most sense? So iterating over all markdown notes to get their hierarchies.
The real question for this would be performance.

[SkepticMystic]

@kometenstaub I could certainly expose something (or even code something new) to make this more convenient.
Let me know what sort of info you need (and the type signature), and I can see what would be easiest/fastest

[SkepticMystic]

But yes, getMatrixNeighbours would certainly work to get all Breadcrumbs links.
I'm thinking it might just be easier to work with the graph though

[kometenstaub]

I see. Ideally I could just give it a TFile and get the directions back.
But that would probably be quite taxing on performance.

Looking at app.plugins.plugins.breadcrumbs.api.mainG, I could access _nodes and move that into a web worker, but then I would need to do all the work breadcrumbs does for calculating the relationships. That's not something I'm planning to do.

I also cannot find the paths and only the note names in it, so that would also not work properly for duplicate names, I think.

[SkepticMystic]

I think getMatrixNeighbours gives all the info you're looking for.
And I think it does the calculation relatively efficiently.

But yes, duplicate note names are an issue

[kometenstaub]

const files = app.vault.getMarkdownFiles()
const api = app.plugins.plugins.breadcrumbs.api
let arr = []
for (const file of files) { arr.push({[file.path]: api.getMatrixNeighbours(file.path.split('/').last().slice(0,-3))})}
console.log(arr)

This does the trick, I'm impressed that graphology's forEachEdge is so fast.

Do you have plans to add support for TFiles to better work with duplicate file names?

[kometenstaub]

But it doesn't get the dataview inline metadata with that. @SkepticMystic

[SkepticMystic]

The issue is that the nodes are added to the graph using just the basename, not full path. So I'd need to completely redo how that's done.
But then there are other issues that come up. It's quite a difficult problem.

[SkepticMystic]

But it doesn't get the dataview inline metadata with that. @SkepticMystic

@kometenstaub what do you mean? It doesn't pickup inline Breadcrumbs parent:: [[Note]], or it doesn't add other dataview fields date: 2022-02-13

[kometenstaub]

The issue is that the nodes are added to the graph using just the basename, not full path. So I'd need to completely redo how that's done.
But then there are other issues that come up. It's quite a difficult problem.

I suppose that is because it doesn't work with links alone but just frontmatter? So you couldn't just run getFirstLinkPathDest on it?

It doesn't pickup inline Breadcrumbs parent:: [[Note]]

That was it. It does work when I manually refresh the index though.

So before executing it, I would need to do

app.commands.executeCommandById('breadcrumbs:Refresh-Breadcrumbs-Index')

But that also displays a Notice, which isn't great for something that would usually run on a schedule.