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Spotlight introspection


  • Subject: Spotlight introspection
  • From: Pierre Bernard <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:27:14 +0100

Hi!

Apple defines a list of common metadata attributes (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/MetadataAttributesRef/index.html). They leave it to the developers of Spotlight importers to define custom attributes as needed.

Is it possible to query the Spotlight server for a list of defined (or actually used) attributes and their definition?

I.e. While I know the 'kMDItemAuthors' attribute exists, a third-party program may have defined a 'photographer' attribute that I could query too. The trouble is finding which attributes exists and what acceptable values are.

TIA
Pierre Bernard

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