On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:00 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > 2008/7/3 Philip Van Hoof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Daze[1] actually use org.freedesktop.Tracker.Files.Exist to store user > annotations directly in Tracker. So the API is indeed of use. However > another incarnation of it may be more in order. The Files namespace would indicate to me that it's strictly about files. Unless the file must be created doesn't Files.Create make a lot of sense to me. Files.Exist should be called Files.IsIndexed. If Files.Create is for creating arbitrary records that don't necessarily represent a thing like a real file, I personally would call it something like: Arbitrary.Create or Objects.Create or Indexables.Create Files.Create right now puts something in file-meta.db, but file-meta is clearly for "real files"-only. Maybe a arbitrary-meta.db is in place. > With my Xesam hat on I imagine that the Xesam Metadata Storage spec is > going to have something like: > > CreateRecord (content, source, fields) CreateRecord would make sense, except that it tells too much about the implementation detail of 'records' being used, in my opinion. For the user of Xesam, it doesn't matter how the indexer stores things. > Where one could store a purely virtual record in the db. The indexer > should automatically pick this up somehow. I have not really thought > the API through so please don't take CreateRecord to seriously. I do > however see the need for something along those lines. Okay :) > [1]: Daze was a part-serious part-sample application I stirred > together to test Tracker. See http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=173 Sure, we can probably adapt it easily to start using a more meaningful remote Tracker API? :) -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
