[Feature]: profile page

[stabldev]

Describe the feature

profile page akin to https://www.reddit.com/user/GovernmentWaste3396/
just add only necessary features and stuff and disable others which will be implemented later.

How important is this feature?

High priority

Additional context or examples

No response

[Sahal-Rasheed]

Hi @moonlitgrace,
I am interested in working on the backend part of this feature. Could you provide more details on what needs to be handled from the backend side for this ?

[stabldev]

hey @Sahal-Rasheed,
thank you for your interest. so here is a basic sketch of what i've in mind, please take a look.

those tabs will on different endpoints,
eg:
/u/<username>/overview/ returns overview of profile (like format in sketch).
you could use annote to add new field and serialize based on that type.
and return a list of containing both, then we will render them on frontend based on type field.
("type": "comment" | "post")

like this other endpoints:
u/<username>/posts/ returns posts only (in date order).
likewise for rest.

you could use actions decorator for extra actions for profile endpoint.

and i suggest you to take a look at how reddit UI is: here
lmk if you've any doubts.

[Sahal-Rasheed]

hey @Sahal-Rasheed, thank you for your interest. so here is a basic sketch of what i've in mind, please take a look.

those tabs will on different endpoints, eg: /u/<username>/overview/ returns overview of profile (like format in sketch). you could use annote to add new field and serialize based on that type. and return a list of containing both, then we will render them on frontend based on type field. ("type": "comment" | "post")

like this other endpoints: u/<username>/posts/ returns posts only (in date order). likewise for rest.

you could use actions decorator for extra actions for profile endpoint.

and i suggest you to take a look at how reddit UI is: here lmk if you've any doubts.

Hi @moonlitgrace,
Thanks for the explanation! I’m setting up the environment to start working on this. Do you have a database dump available to populate the DB? Also, is there a Postman collection for API testing? Let me know. If I have any further doubts, I’ll reach out. Looking forward to contributing.

[stabldev]

Do you have a database dump available to populate the DB? Also, is there a Postman collection for API testing?

unfortunately, no for both. i dont have a proper db to share. and I dont use postman every time.
maybe you could help me with that :)

apart from that, could you also add a banner field to the Profile modal? same as the avatar one.
lookin forward to your contributions 🚀

[Sahal-Rasheed]

hi @moonlitgrace,
for the above task you explained lil bit confused as shall we use the existing PostSerializer, CommentDetailSerializer for serializing Post, Comment or should we create a new ones ? Also for the /overview endpoint we will need the type field but for rest all that field is not needed so here is what i thought of have a look and share your thoughts on this, if any other way around we can discuss.

[stabldev]

@Sahal-Rasheed, thats a good take. do we actually need another 2 serializers?
what do you think abt something like this:

# annotate a new value to queryset
posts = <post-filter-here>.annotate(type=Value("post", CharField()))
comments = <comment-filter-here>.annotate(type=Value("comment", CharField()))

sorted_list = # [do something to sort based on "created_at" value)

serialized_data = OverviewSerializer(sorted_list, many=True).data

# OverviewSerializer
class OverviewSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    type = serializers.CharField()
    data = serializers.SerializerMethodField()

    def get_data(self, obj):
        # remove type field from obj and pass to serializers
        if obj.type == "post":
            return PostSerializer(obj).data
        return CommentSerializer(obj).data

# do other stuffs

so the output will be like:

[{ "type": "comment", "data": ...data_here }, ...same for post type ]

[Sahal-Rasheed]

@moonlitgrace, if the existing Post and Comment serializer is enough for serializing the Post and Comment data as per our requirement then no need to create another 2 serializers. we can simple re-use the exisiting once as u mentioned above. with that we can use the OverviewSerializer for the /overview endpoint and the existing Post and Comment serializer for the other endpoints respectively. also since this OverviewSerializer is related to both Post and Comment shall i create this as a separate serializer under /serializers/overview/. ? plz let me know u r thoughts on this.

[stabldev]

@Sahal-Rasheed since overview is not a specific app, what abt doing it like- /api/serializers/user/profile/overview.py?
this way we can do other combined serializers like- [upvoted,downvoted].py in same dir.
so yea lmk if this sounds good and pls go ahead, we'll see.