Feature: Group a meal's notes

[j-maas]

A meal's notes could support optional groups.

Example

API

{
  "id": 260,
  "name": "Gemüse-Couscouspfanne mit Joghurt-Ingwer-Dip, dazu bunter Blattsalat",
  "notes": [
    "mensaVital"
  ],
  "notegroups": {
    "additives": [
      "Milch",
      "Gluten",
      "Farbstoff"
    ],
    "nutritional-information": [
      "Brennwert = 2144 kJ (512 kcal)",
      "Fett = 13,1g",
      "Kohlenhydrate = 70,6g",
      "Eiweiß = 19,6g"
    ]
  },
  "prices": {
    "student": 2.3,
    "employee": 3.65,
    "other": 4.6
  },
  "category": "Alternativ-Angebot"
}

Feed

<meal>
    <name>Gemüse-Couscouspfanne mit Joghurt-Ingwer-Dip, dazu bunter Blattsalat</name>
    <note>mensaVital</note>
    <note>vegetarisch</note>
    <notegroup name="additives">
        <note>Milch</note>
        <note>Gluten</note>
        <note>Farbstoff</note>
    </notegroup>
    <notegroup name="nutritional-information">
        <note>Brennwert = 2144 kJ (512 kcal)</note>
        <note>Fett = 13,1g</note>
        <note>Kohlenhydrate = 70,6g</note>
        <note>Eiweiß = 19,6g"</note>
    </notegroup>
    <price role="student">2.30</price>
    <price role="employee">3.65</price>
    <price role=other>4.60</price>
</meal>

This would be backwards-compatible, but allow for tydier notes.

[mswart]

The current notes implementation is very basic and should be extend.
I am unsure whether simple note groups are enough. The encoding of the nutritional-information as plain notes does not look right.
Furthermore I would like to investigate who to standardize the usage above different parsers to get comparable results.

[j-maas]

Yes, I agree that the nutritional information is a bit awkward. But note groups would be a very simple, yet big improvement.

Furthermore I would like to investigate who to standardize the usage above different parsers to get comparable results.

I do not understand what you mean by that. Could you explain?

[ialokim]

The current notes implementation is very basic and should be extend.

Are there currently any plans to improve on this? I'm pretty sure there are a lot of canteens that do provide additives or nutritional information to their customers, but as for now, this can not be shown explicitly via the OpenMensa specification.

I would like to contribute on the investigation and specification update of the feed and the API and even on the server-side implementation. Where should I start?