Re: Mail indexer

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:07 +0200, Nils Erik Svang� wrote:
> I think I get it. If the fileformat for the licq logs is some strange
> format I probably have to write a filter for that. And then make a
> backen who uses that filter?

Essentially, yes.  If I were you, though, I would start with the
backend, since that's where the data will be coming from to start.

I don't know anything about licq, so I'll make up a hypothetical
situation.  Let's say that licq stores its logs in ~/.licq/logs/<icq
number> and that there is a icq number to nickname mapping in
~/.licq/buddy.xml.

Your backend would look in ~/.licq/logs for new/updated logs, and then
look in ~/.licq/buddy.xml to map them to a human readable name.  You
then create an Indexable object and set certain properties on it,
including the nickname of the buddy who sent it to you.

>From there, the filter would take over and parse the logs for more
general information if it's there.  Now, if the licq logs are very
specialized (ie, not plain text, but not HTML or some other standard
format) you can skip the filtering process altogether and just do all of
the work in the backend.

Joe