Re: [Tracker] New branch for Xesam support in trackerd

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2008/4/24 Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>:
> Hackers! Ping
>
>  A group of people, including myself, have started a branch called
>  "xesam-support" where we are doing an attempt at adding support for
>  Xesam in the trackerd service.
>
>  We branched from the indexer-split branch where all the cool new DBus
>  things are being done by people like frade, martyn and garnacho.
>
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support
>
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/indexer-split
>
>  Interesting new files:
>
>  Types that represent a Xesam Session and a Xesam Search:
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support/src/trackerd/tracker-xesam-session.c
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support/src/trackerd/tracker-xesam-session.h
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support/src/trackerd/tracker-xesam-live-search.h
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support/src/trackerd/tracker-xesam-live-search.c
>
>  The glib-dbus DBus proxy type (sorry for the confusion between "Search"
>  and "LiveSearch" (above), we decided on this name because of consistency
>  with the existing TrackerDBusSearch for /org/freedesktop/Tracker/Search.
>  This one serves as object for /org/freedesktop/xesam/Search (which is
>  consistent in naming within the existing infrastructure of trackerd's
>  code)
>
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support/src/trackerd/tracker-xesam-search.c
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support/src/trackerd/tracker-xesam-search.h
>
>  Some global API:
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support/src/trackerd/tracker-xesam.c
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support/src/trackerd/tracker-xesam.h
>
>
>  In the code, you'll notice that we aligned the Xesam specification
>  documentation for http://xesam.org/main/XesamSearchAPI to the types
>  TrackerXesamSearch 's and TrackerXesamSession 's gtk-doc comments. This
>  will make it more easy to get their implementations right and according
>  to spec.
>
>  There are "todo" markers and "not-sure" markers in the current code.
>
>  SO ... if you feel a sudden urge to just go for it, and help us with the
>  effort of getting it done: you are absolutely more than welcome. Meet us
>  (otella, pvanhoof, martyn, garnacho, frade, konttori) on #tracker at
>  irc.gimpnet.org.
>
>  Just svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support or
>  svn co svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/branches/xesam-support
>
>  ... and start coding!

Wow, I am delighted to hear this :-)

I wont be able to do much until the somewhere early-may. But expect my
scrutinizing eye by then :-D

Remember that xesam-tools[1] has a few tools to test and query Xesam providers.

Cheers,
Mikkel

[1]: http://xesam.org/people/kamstrup/xesam-tools/