Public bug reported: Currently Tracker plugin is based on CLI search tool (tracker-search). It launches the tool with necessary parameters, and parses the output. This approach strictly depends on the output format of tracker-search. If the format of tracker-search output changes, the plugin stops working properly. This has been the root cause for several bugs, and there's no guarantee this won't happen in future.
Tracker service provides a D-Bus interface, which can be used to perform searches. D-Bus API of tracker is documented, so the Tracker plugin can be easily implemented using it. Bugs that were caused by incorrect parsing of tracker-search output: https://bugs.launchpad.net/do-plugins/+bug/371207 https://bugs.launchpad.net/do-plugins/+bug/376836 Tracker D-Bus API: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/tracker/trunk/data/dbus/tracker-search.xml?view=markup I'm attaching a proof-of-concept implementation. It surely needs some code polishing / refactoring, and I'm not sure I've used the best practices for NDesk.DBus (I've got no experience in this field at all), but at least it works for me :) ** Affects: do-plugins Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: dbus tracker-plugin wishlist -- [Wishlist] Implement Tracker plugin using DBus interface https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376837 You received this bug notification because you are a member of GNOME Do Plugins Team, which is subscribed to GNOME Do Plugins. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~do-plugins Post to : do-plugins@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~do-plugins More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
