(Bug report) Frontend API in 0.61 can no longer get a note's creation date

[mabeyj]

Trilium Version

0.61.5-beta

What operating system are you using?

Windows

What is your setup?

Local + server sync

Operating System Version

Windows 10 22H2

Description

Before 0.61, the Frontend API had a note.getNoteComplement method which returned an object that included the note's creation date (dateCreated and utcDateCreated):

await note.getNoteComplement()

{
    "noteId": "vfkW2wl8Mb1l",
    "content": "...",
    "contentLength": 291,
    "dateCreated": "2023-08-20 20:58:58.067-0300",
    "dateModified": "2023-08-20 20:58:58.067-0300",
    "utcDateCreated": "2023-08-20 23:58:58.067Z",
    "utcDateModified": "2023-08-20 23:58:58.067Z",
    "combinedDateModified": "2023-08-20 20:58:58.068-0300",
    "combinedUtcDateModified": "2023-08-20 23:58:58.068Z"
}

As of 0.61, note.getNoteComplement has been deprecated in favour of note.getBlob, both of which return an FBlob object. But FBlob does not have a creation date.

await note.getBlob()

{
    "blobId": "i60MtR9KeJlB68ftEBin",
    "content": "...",
    "contentLength": 291,
    "dateModified": "2023-08-20 20:58:58.036-0300",
    "utcDateModified": "2023-08-20 23:58:58.036Z"
}

There currently doesn't seem to be a (documented) way to obtain a note's creation date using the Frontend API. This breaks a use case where scripts could obtain and use the creation dates of notes (mabeyj/trilium-collection-views#41).

Can dateCreated and utcDateCreated for notes be made available somewhere in the Frontend API?

Error logs

No response

[mabeyj]

Somewhat related: There's also not an equivalent for the combinedDateModified and combinedUtcDateModified properties that were included in the Note Complement object.

I believe these were the most recent date of either the note's modified date or the content's modified date. The combined date is shown by the Note Info widget:

trilium/src/public/app/widgets/ribbon_widgets/note_info_widget.js

Lines 130 to 132 in 72b2a6e

	this.$dateModified
	.text(metadata.combinedDateModified.substr(0, 16))
	.attr("title", metadata.combinedDateModified);

Scripts can currently only get the blob's modified date which is not necessarily the same. Preferably when showing the date modified, I would want it to be the same one shown under Note Info.

Either dateModified/utcDateModified of the note itself or combined(Utc)DateModified properties would need to be made available as well.

[zadam]

Hello, thanks for the report. The FBlob is indeed not a replacement for the previous "notecomplement". I've added a new function FNote.getMetadata(), see demo:

[zadam]

Somewhat related: There's also not an equivalent for the combinedDateModified and combinedUtcDateModified properties that were included in the Note Complement object.

Indeed, but these "combined" dates are no longer necessary. The note storage approach was redesigned in 0.61, and because of that note.utcDateCreated and note.utcDateModified reflect both the note properties and the content. This is because now note object contains blobId reference. Blobs are immutable (copy on write), so if the content changes, new blobId will be used which will force note update (and therefore change of utcDateModified).

[mabeyj]

Awesome, thanks!