Re: Deleting indexed items

["Joe Shaw" <joe joeshaw org>]

Hi,

> Current behaviour is not due to any policy :-) but lack of
> implementation. I feel several things should be done
> (1) Expire webhistory data in beagle after some time (user configurable)

Yeah, this should be really straightforward to add.  Basically the
indexing service backend will need a task that runs once a day and
does a date search.  Anything older than the threshold should be
scheduled for removal.  Since every time you visit a particular page
it gets reindexed, the timestamp of these items will always be
correct.

> (2) Provide API and standard tool to let users delete specific items

Yep, beagle-master-delete-button is this tool and is an example of how
to use the API.

Clearing the web history index when clearing the browser cache is a
good idea too, if it's possible to notice that from an extension.
Maybe our Firefox extension SoC project could do that (hint, hint. :).

Joe