Subj : Message header total_votes and upvotes properties
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Apr 24 2019 03:16 pm

  Re: Message header total_votes and upvotes properties
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Apr 24 2019 01:11 pm

 >   Re: Message header total_votes and upvotes properties
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Apr 23 2019 09:25 pm
 >
 >  DM> Those header properties are only calculated and added the header object
 >  DM> when using the MsgBase.get_all_msg_headers() method. Are you?
 >
 > I see where the problem is.  It's due to a recent update I made to my
 > reader.  I had started using the get_index() function, thinking it would be
 > a faster way to filter vote messages out of the list of messages, and
 > loading only the non-vote messages for display.  I suppose I'll have to just
 > use get_all_msg_headers().

When a message is voted on, the original message header is not modified - new
message headers are added and distributed over the message network(s). That's
why get_all_msg_headers() is needed to tally the votes.

                                            digital man

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