Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into search-rebased

# Conflicts:
#	Emby.Server.Implementations/Library/LibraryManager.cs
#	Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Item/PeopleRepository.cs
#	MediaBrowser.Controller/Library/ILibraryManager.cs
#	MediaBrowser.Controller/Persistence/IPeopleRepository.cs

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Controller/Persistence/IPeopleRepository.cs b/MediaBrowser.Controller/Persistence/IPeopleRepository.cs
index 3a3b2bfb1f..7474130ec4 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Controller/Persistence/IPeopleRepository.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Controller/Persistence/IPeopleRepository.cs
@@ -34,12 +34,11 @@ public interface IPeopleRepository
     IReadOnlyList<string> GetPeopleNames(InternalPeopleQuery filter);
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Gets the people names per item for a batch of item IDs, preserving per-item list order.
-    /// One database round-trip for the whole batch; grouped by item id in memory.
-    /// Items with no people are omitted from the returned dictionary.
+    /// Gets distinct people names for multiple items efficiently by querying from the mapping table.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="itemIds">The item IDs to get people for.</param>
-    /// <param name="personTypes">Optional person types to include (e.g. "Actor", "Director"). Empty for all.</param>
-    /// <returns>Dictionary keyed by item id; values are the per-item people names.</returns>
-    IReadOnlyDictionary<Guid, IReadOnlyList<string>> GetPeopleNamesByItem(IReadOnlyList<Guid> itemIds, IReadOnlyList<string> personTypes);
+    /// <param name="personTypes">The person types to include (e.g. "Actor", "Director").</param>
+    /// <param name="limit">Maximum number of names to return.</param>
+    /// <returns>The distinct people names.</returns>
+    IReadOnlyList<string> GetPeopleNamesByItems(IReadOnlyList<Guid> itemIds, IReadOnlyList<string> personTypes, int limit);
 }