Implement proof-of-concept for albums about photoprism

[lastzero]

Sure, move on! You'll find me on the chat in case you have questions. I recommend building the API / db first (bottom up), and then do the frontend.

[lastzero]

Somebody could actually start building the API for this so that I can do the UI later.

Create a file albums.go here:
https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/tree/develop/internal/api

Start by implementing GetAlbums()

Then add it here:
https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/internal/server/routes.go

Simple enough? Unit tests would be awesome, didn't have the time to create them for the REST API yet :/

[gwelican]

seeing there is no in progress label, I suppose noone is working on this? in which case I will give it a big

[graciousgrey]

In the pdf I attached you can find some first wireframes for the project, it includes some pages for the album functionality as well. Those are not fixed requirements - it is more like a collection of ideas to discuss. Input and further/other ideas are very welcome. Let us know what you think :)
PhotoPrism Wireframes.pdf

[gwelican]

thanks, I suck at UX. I will take a look. I mostly worked on the API, I just started on the UI to add photos to albums and create new albums.

I was thinking about click on the photo (add to album), then all the albums would be listed and on the top there would be a create new album.
Of course the same modal window would popup in the album's view when you click on new album.

Something like this: https://i.imgur.com/SWGUrTg.gif

[graciousgrey]

That looks good, I like the modal :). Maybe additionally to opening the modal when the user clicks on a single photo (like in the gif) we could implement that the user can select multiple photos and then adds all selected photos via the same modal to an album. The select functionality should be already there. But this is just a suggestion you can of course stop at any point you want - there is no need to implement all features fully before creating a pull request.

[gwelican]

yeah tbh I feel like this is a rabbit hole, I was thinking about creating albums assigning photos to albums and listing albums, but it became this huuuuge thing. Anyway, I am thinking about defining something like an MVP, you can assign a single photo to an album, then we can extend it later.

So far creating the album, adding photo to an album parts are done, listing an album is still left.
Once I get closer, I will open a PR to review the code, I am inexperienced in go and vuejs, so I expect some review comments.

[graciousgrey]

Yes sure, the whole album thing is a big functionality. Define what ever MVP you like - we can then close this issue and create a new one for extended functionality. Thank you for working on this :)