Spotlight w/ HFS Extended Attributes
Spotlight w/ HFS Extended Attributes
- Subject: Spotlight w/ HFS Extended Attributes
- From: Lee Morgan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 00:07:50 -0400
Sorry this is more Spotlight related than Cocoa, but seeing that
there's no Spotlight mailing list, and my app is Cocoa based - I
guess this is the closest I get.
I realize that the new HFS Extended Attributes are not exposed to the
higher level API's yet, and also that Spotlight doesn't extract their
contents during indexing. However I'm working on a application that
would greatly benefit from Spotlight indexing this information. Is it
possible to write a Spotlight importer that handles every file with
out it interfering with other plug-ins? So that I can extract the
extended attributes and add it to the Spotlight store.
If not, any recommendation on an alternative solution? I need to
store user specified meta data with any given file. I've considered
using the extended attributes and just creating my own index of them,
however this means during a search that I would have to perform two
searches - one for Spotlight and then from those results form another
for my own extended attributes (or vise-versa, which would probably
be faster come to think of it).
thanks,
lee
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