Browse the Directory by category, then subcategory, as Apple does (#118)

The Directory had one row of chips holding whatever each feed's category was, a category
(Technology) or a subcategory (Tech News, Video Games) side by side: a podcast's own
<itunes:category> is stored as its subcategory, and Jev's answers (#117) are often
subcategories too, so after the first forced scan the row held 22 chips. /api/directory now
gives each feed's Apple category and subcategory, worked out from Apple's list, and the
page shows the categories, then a picked one's subcategories on a line of their own. A
category that is not Apple's, one an admin typed, stands as a category of its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -1033,6 +1033,21 @@ const CATEGORIES: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[
("TV & Film", &["After Shows", "Film History", "Film Interviews", "Film Reviews", "TV Reviews"]),
];
/// Where a category sits in Apple's list, as (category, subcategory), so the Directory browses a
/// category and then its subcategories as Apple's does (#118). A podcast's own is stored as its
/// subcategory, and one an admin typed that is not Apple's stands as a category of its own.
pub fn category_path(name: &str) -> (String, Option<String>) {
for (category, subs) in CATEGORIES {
if category.eq_ignore_ascii_case(name) {
return (category.to_string(), None);
}
if let Some(sub) = subs.iter().find(|s| s.eq_ignore_ascii_case(name)) {
return (category.to_string(), Some(sub.to_string()));
}
}
(name.to_string(), None)
}
/// A Directory category for a feed that names none of its own, which most blogs do not (#117):
/// TypeSafe's Jev picks one of Apple's categories or subcategories from the feed's title and
/// latest items, the subcategory being what a podcast's own category is stored as. The likeliest
@@ -1571,5 +1586,14 @@ mod tests {
assert!(super::picked(&answer("Blogs")).is_err(), "not one of Apple's");
assert!(super::picked(&serde_json::json!({"error": "rate limited"})).is_err());
}
#[test]
fn category_path_finds_a_subcategory_s_category() {
use super::category_path;
assert_eq!(category_path("Tech News"), ("News".into(), Some("Tech News".into())));
assert_eq!(category_path("video games"), ("Leisure".into(), Some("Video Games".into())), "Apple's spelling");
assert_eq!(category_path("Technology"), ("Technology".into(), None));
assert_eq!(category_path("Homebrew"), ("Homebrew".into(), None), "not Apple's: its own category");
}
}