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Update documentation for how this refactoring will go
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It's so complicated it needs its own README.
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![](./RoomListStore2.png)
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Legend:
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* Orange = External event.
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* Purple = Deterministic flow.
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* Green = Algorithm definition.
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* Red = Exit condition/point.
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* Blue = Process definition.
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## Algorithms involved
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There's two main kinds of algorithms involved in the room list store: list ordering and tag sorting.
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Throughout the code an intentional decision has been made to call them the List Algorithm and Sorting
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Algorithm respectively. The list algorithm determines the behaviour of the room list whereas the sorting
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algorithm determines how rooms get ordered within tags affected by the list algorithm.
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Algorithm respectively. The list algorithm determines the primary ordering of a given tag whereas the
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tag sorting defines how rooms within that tag get sorted, at the discretion of the list ordering.
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Behaviour of the overall room list (sticky rooms, etc) are determined by the generically-named Algorithm
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class. Here is where much of the coordination from the room list store is done to figure out which list
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algorithm to call, instead of having all the logic in the room list store itself.
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Behaviour of the room list takes the shape of determining what features the room list supports, as well
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as determining where and when to apply the sorting algorithm in a tag. The importance algorithm, which
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is described later in this doc, is an example of an algorithm which makes heavy behavioural changes
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to the room list.
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Tag sorting is effectively the comparator supplied to the list algorithm. This gives the list algorithm
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the power to decide when and how to apply the tag sorting, if at all.
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the power to decide when and how to apply the tag sorting, if at all. For example, The importance algorithm,
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later described in this document, heavily uses the list ordering behaviour to break the tag into categories.
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Each category then gets sorted by the appropriate tag sorting algorithm.
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### Tag sorting algorithm: Alphabetical
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above bold, etc.
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Once the algorithm has determined which rooms belong in which categories, the tag sorting algorithm
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gets applied to each category in a sub-sub-list fashion. This should result in the red rooms (for example)
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gets applied to each category in a sub-list fashion. This should result in the red rooms (for example)
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being sorted alphabetically amongst each other as well as the grey rooms sorted amongst each other, but
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collectively the tag will be sorted into categories with red being at the top.
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### Sticky rooms
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## Sticky rooms
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When the user visits a room, that room becomes 'sticky' in the list, regardless of ordering algorithm.
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From a code perspective, the underlying algorithm is not aware of a sticky room and instead the base class
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## Class breakdowns
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The `RoomListStore` is the major coordinator of various `Algorithm` implementations, which take care
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of the various `ListAlgorithm` and `SortingAlgorithm` options. The `Algorithm` superclass is also
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responsible for figuring out which tags get which rooms, as Matrix specifies them as a reverse map:
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tags get defined on rooms and are not defined as a collection of rooms (unlike how they are presented
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to the user). Various list-specific utilities are also included, though they are expected to move
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somewhere more general when needed. For example, the `membership` utilities could easily be moved
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elsewhere as needed.
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The `RoomListStore` is the major coordinator of various algorithm implementations, which take care
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of the various `ListAlgorithm` and `SortingAlgorithm` options. The `Algorithm` class is responsible
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for figuring out which tags get which rooms, as Matrix specifies them as a reverse map: tags get
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defined on rooms and are not defined as a collection of rooms (unlike how they are presented to the
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user). Various list-specific utilities are also included, though they are expected to move somewhere
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more general when needed. For example, the `membership` utilities could easily be moved elsewhere
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as needed.
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The various bits throughout the room list store should also have jsdoc of some kind to help describe
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what they do and how they work.
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