Cleanly represent in-progress livestreams

todo

• add --has-source and --has-no-source flags to claim_search to select only claims that do/dont have a source
• make sure that when you publish, the source is not required (maybe add flag to confirm you really intended not to have a source)
• make sure claim_update can add a source
• notify @DispatchCommit when this is live on the cluster

what

• need a clean way to represent a livestream that’s in progress
• could just be hiding streams that don’t have a source. but ideally the protobuf has a clean way of saying “this is a livestream”
• if hiding live streams, odysee needs a flag to include live streams in results

why?

• want to tie comments to a claim
• want a url that can be shared (at least after stream has been uploaded, but maybe also during the stream)

plan

• make a claim with no Source and optionally a future release date (if you know)
• add flag to claim_search to exclude streams without a source. app will start using this anytime it needs to exclude livestreams.
• after creator goes live, they (or we, for for them) will update this claim with the recorded livestream. this adds a source and takes it from livestream to normal claim.
• (nice to have) if you want a fixed url, repost the sourceless claim to another url (maybe /live). the repost will redirect to your next livestream claim, and comments will be attached correctly. once you’ve gone live and uploaded that stream, you make a new sourcecless claim and point your fixed repost to this new claim.

[lyoshenka]

Why can’t you use the url from this in-progress claim? Why do you need to repost?

If you want a single fixed url to share. Let’s say I go live every day at 3pm. I want to tell ppl “watch me at @grin/live”. I don’t want a new url every day.

Using the repost method, i can have @grin/live be a repost of that day’s livestream claim. Since Odysee redirects users, they’ll go to the correct claim (with related comments, etc)

Then tomorrow I make a new claim and edit @grin/live to point to that new claim.

[lyoshenka]

victor should be done with search this week (assuming tonight’s deploy to odysee cluster goes well). we can do this next