2006/11/30, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2006/11/28, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
>
>
>     As for live queries, I dont like dynamic interfaces and in tracker
we
>     will simply take a live_query_id as a param and use dbus signal
>     filtering to listen for changes to that specific ID
>
>
>
> You mean that the client app will have to do dbus match rules, no? I see
> that this would work, but it also feels counter intuitive, and all
> experience tells me that this should be avoided in an api.
>
> Why not use temporary dbus objects instead? That will also wrap easier
> in a toolkit client object. Then you have the search engine live
interface:
>
>   method org.freedesktop.search.live.PrepareQuery(args) : returns a dbus
> path to the query object

yes that will do - I was worried the existing interface would be
extended dynamically but yeah using a separate interface will avoid that

>
> The query object has the interface org.freedesktop.search.Query
> something like:
>
>   method org.freedesktop.search.Query.Execute (args)
>   method org.freedesktop.search.Query.HitCount (args)
>   method org.freedesktop.search.Query.Close (args)
>
>   signal org.freedesktop.search.Query.HitAdd (args)
>   signal org.freedesktop.search.Query.HitRemove (args)
>   signal org.freedesktop.search.Query.HitModify (args)
>
> This is a really rough draft, but I hope the point is clear enough...
>

yeah thats fine.  (not sure you need a HitModify though?)

HitAdd - only fired when a new file is created that matches the query
HitRemove - only fired when a file is deleted that matches the query

For a file Move - it generates a remove and an add signal.


The HitModify was a bit arbitarary... I was thinking that the metadata for
the hit could change. Resizing and image, changing mimetype, snippet text
changes... This could still be solved by add/remove signals though...

Cheers,
Mikkel
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