API cant filter People by location

A note about privacy, prevent devs to commit a mistake.

API cant filter People by location
A note about privacy, prevent devs to commit a mistake.
Aurélio A. Heckert
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lib/noosfero/api/v1/people.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,17 @@ module Noosfero
  
         resource :people do
  
-          # Collect comments from articles
+          # -- A note about privacy --
+          # We wold find people by location, but we must test if the related
+          # fields are public. We can't do it now, with SQL, while the location
+          # data and the fields_privacy are a serialized settings.
+          # We must build a new table for profile data, where we can set meta-data
+          # like:
+          # | id | profile_id | key  | value    | privacy_level | source    |
+          # |  1 |         99 | city | Salvador | friends       | user      |
+          # |  2 |         99 | lng  |  -38.521 | me only       | automatic |
+
+          # Collect people from environment
           #
           # Parameters:
           #   from             - date where the search will begin. If nothing is passed the default date will be the date of the first article created
...	...	@@ -6,7 +6,17 @@ module Noosfero
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7	7	resource :people do
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9		- # Collect comments from articles
	9	+ # -- A note about privacy --
	10	+ # We wold find people by location, but we must test if the related
	11	+ # fields are public. We can't do it now, with SQL, while the location
	12	+ # data and the fields_privacy are a serialized settings.
	13	+ # We must build a new table for profile data, where we can set meta-data
	14	+ # like:
	15	+ # \| id \| profile_id \| key \| value \| privacy_level \| source \|
	16	+ # \| 1 \| 99 \| city \| Salvador \| friends \| user \|
	17	+ # \| 2 \| 99 \| lng \| -38.521 \| me only \| automatic \|
	18	+
	19	+ # Collect people from environment
10	20	#
11	21	# Parameters:
12	22	# from - date where the search will begin. If nothing is passed the default date will be the date of the first article created
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