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BetterRed · 11-08-2014, 04:36 PM

The calibre editor provides a facility to maintain and import user defined 'dictionaries', they are stored in %calibre_config_directory%\dictionaries\prefs.json .

I wonder if sbenz's Bad Words PI could leverage that feature. Assuming different Bad Word 'dictionaries' would be used for different physical libraries then only the dictionary name need be stored in the library database.

Another advantage of leveraging the existing user dictionary facility might be that it is language aware.

Aside :

I doubt that storing the bad word list in the database would have any noticeable impact on performance. As for cluttering, one of my databases has 31 tables, 61 indices, 13 views and 46 triggers. I assume a bad_word_list would be a row in the preferences table and an update to the preferences autoindex, I can't see how that could be regarded as 'cluttering' the database.

One of my user dictionaries has ~6800 words, it weighs-in at 105MB, I'm pretty certain that SQLite can handle something of that size and much larger.

BR

11-08-2014, 04:36 PM	#7
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,848 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	The calibre editor provides a facility to maintain and import user defined 'dictionaries', they are stored in %calibre_config_directory%\dictionaries\prefs.json . I wonder if sbenz's Bad Words PI could leverage that feature. Assuming different Bad Word 'dictionaries' would be used for different physical libraries then only the dictionary name need be stored in the library database. Another advantage of leveraging the existing user dictionary facility might be that it is language aware. Aside : I doubt that storing the bad word list in the database would have any noticeable impact on performance. As for cluttering, one of my databases has 31 tables, 61 indices, 13 views and 46 triggers. I assume a bad_word_list would be a row in the preferences table and an update to the preferences autoindex, I can't see how that could be regarded as 'cluttering' the database. One of my user dictionaries has ~6800 words, it weighs-in at 105MB, I'm pretty certain that SQLite can handle something of that size and much larger. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 11-08-2014 at 10:18 PM.