No this will not work. (Spotlight knows nothing about filter
services)
Spotlight does not go into packages at all.
Basically you will have to write a plugin for you file-package
that will also index the rtfd files stored within.
Vince
How would this work? If the files stored within got changed and
spotlight doesn't pay attention to them then no importer would ever
get called. How would you trigger this "re-indexing" of your file
package?
Your importer will get notified as if the entire package has changed.
if the package looks like this
if you edit file2.rtfd/text.rtf then your importer will get notified
that foo.mypackage has changed.
Furthermore i'm a bit confused as to how to proceed with regard to
an sqlite database.
If each file represents one result in a spotlight search, and my
single-file sqlite database represents thousands of potential
results, is there any way to do this other than managing two data
stores(one sqlite database, and one folder full of special files
representing each record in the sqlite database)?
I'm not sure i understand this one, which, admittedly is probably
because my knowledge of CoreData is somewhat limited. However, what
that article suggests is that somehow CoreData takes care of most
of the work of doing a spotlight importer.
What confuses me is that if i have an sqlite database, and i make a
change, my importer would get called independently, how would it
know what "record" it is updating in spotlight?
For now you basically need to leave a trail file (not sure what to
call it) and update that file when the data in the sql lite database
changes etc.
For example in iCal the calendars are stored as they normally are
but, in Library/Caches/Metadata/iCal/ are the spotlight files that
get indexed and presented to the user, when one of these files is
selected iCal starts up and should select the event for that day etc..
Delicious Library is doing exactly the same thing.
Vince
Thanks!
Ali
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