API request: load a media timeline from a specific event

[bmarty]

The app needs to be able to load a media timeline from a specific event, to be able to navigate through media using the swipe gesture.

Currently we have an API Room.messageFilteredTimeline that returns a timeline.

A possible solution could be to add an optional eventId parameter to this method.

[bnjbvr]

Hi! the timeline created with permalinks does exactly that, right?

[bmarty]

Yes, in this case, the API is Room.timelineFocusedOnEvent. So we need a bit of a mix of the 2 APIs.

[bnjbvr]

Oh you're talking only about an FFI-layer API for this, aren't you?

[bmarty]

Yes, this is the only API the application is aware of.

[bnjbvr]

Ok, that makes sense. Please add details in your issue next time that this is for the FFI layer. Out of context, this was a bit hard to understand (especially since all the APIs already exist in the SDK, maybe not at the FFI layer). The "application" isn't our only use case.

[bmarty]

Will do, thanks. I thought that linking the user story (element-hq/element-meta#2698) was enough to give context, my bad!