implement indexing + querying over canvas files

[GamerGirlandCo]

fixes #1739
by the way, if anyone has any suggestions for improvements, please let me know!

[blacksmithgu]

I'm not sure what error this is, but if it's a null check you can use ! to assert that the result exists.

[GamerGirlandCo]

the error is:

Element implicitly has an 'any' type because expression of type 'string' can't be used to index type 'CachedMetadata'.
No index signature with a parameter of type 'string' was found on type 'CachedMetadata'.ts(7053)

[blacksmithgu]

Looks great! I mostly just have a few tslint nits and then one remark about the code in FileImporter which may need to be slightly adjusted.

[daamiian]

When might this functionality be rolled out?

[GamerGirlandCo]

When might this functionality be rolled out?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[blacksmithgu]

Howdy @GamerGirlandCo, I'd actually like to add this functionality to Datacore where I think the data model is a more natural fit for supporting canvas files + canvas pages. Happy to discuss how it should look like.

[HananoshikaYomaru]

@blacksmithgu so sound like this PR is not going to merge in dataview. We need to wait for datacore?

[GottZ]

hm. in regards to b201bd1 I'd actually prefer not to see politics in commit messages.
especially, since I don't want to see this repo getting DMCA'd for something like that.
(talking out of experience.. I was hosting git repos for a couple communities before and once, a revoked commit got a repo a dmca. I had to re-write history and force-push master to change it)

[blacksmithgu]

I squash merge and usually erase any interim commit history for PRs.

[ctwhome]

Hi @blacksmithgu you referred above that this feature would be likely a better suit for Datacore, but in the meantime, it could be really useful if it gets integrated into Dataview, especially now there is an almost done PR for it. Would that be still the plan?

[GamerGirlandCo]

hm. in regards to b201bd1 I'd actually prefer not to see politics in commit messages.
especially, since I don't want to see this repo getting DMCA'd for something like that.
(talking out of experience.. I was hosting git repos for a couple communities before and once, a revoked commit got a repo a dmca. I had to re-write history and force-push master to change it)

it's not politics it's history :)