Re: Spotlight importer for records
Re: Spotlight importer for records
- Subject: Re: Spotlight importer for records
- From: Adam P Jenkins <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:50:08 -0500
Thank you for the information. Search Kit does allow indexing
arbitrary pieces of data that don't have to correspond to actual
files, and since Spotlight is built on top of Search Kit I thought
there would be some way to do the same thing.
Thanks,
Adam
On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:54 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 2 Mar '08, at 10:09 PM, Adam P Jenkins wrote:
I'd like to make Spotlight index individual records from my
application, rather than whole files.
Spotlight doesn't support that yet. Its unit of granularity is whole
files.
Some examples of this are Apple's own iCal, Address Book, and
Mail.app. For instance if you type in someone's name in the
Spotlight search box, in addition to files which contain that name,
individual Address Book entries that match will show up, and
selecting one of them will start Address Book with that address
showing.
Mail and AB do that by creating individual files for every record,
for Spotlight to index. The ones for Address Book are stored in ~/
Library/Application Support/Address Book/Metadata/.
You can do the same thing yourself. It doesn't even matter what kind
of data is in the files, as long as your importer knows how to read
them. (For example, the AB files aren't vCards, just property lists
containing the metadata.) Of course you have to keep these files and
their contents in sync with your real database, which can be a pain.
—Jens
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