PassionsBackend

The Parse Backend for the Passions iOS App

Background Jobs on Parse

findNewAlbums

• Query for all Artists where totalAlbums DOES exist
• find new albums for the queried artists
  • fetch total albums of artist
  • if changed fetch all albums for artist (complete info), if no change return
    • see below...
    • return the artist and albums
  • find the newest album
    • use a default UTC for date 1000.1.1
    • for each album, normalize date to UTC and compare against the currently newest
    • return newest album
  • query all users where "favArtists" contains the current user
  • send a push to all installations of these users "installation"
  • save the artist and return
• set the status and return

fetchFullAlbums

• Query for all Artists where totalAlbums DOES NOT exist
• call spotify to fetch all albums for artist (complete info)
  • fetch artists (simplified) albums, all
  • update totalAlbums if changed
  • process the simplified albums
    • fetch complete album info
    • create or update the album
      • query for the album using the spotify id
      • if empty create it
      • update and save the album
    • return the artist and albums
• save the artist
• set the status and return