Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files
Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files
- Subject: Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files
- From: Vince DeMarco <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 13:58:26 -0700
On May 3, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Ali Lalani wrote:
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?
Because we coalesce all of the changes, your importer will only see
that the package has changed not that the insides of the package 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)?
Someone else on the list answered this question already.
I'm not using CoreData at the moment but i did come across this
little article:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
NSPersistentDocumentTutorial/07_Metadata/chapter_8_section_7.html
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?
Thanks!
Ali
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