Re: [Tracker] Tomboy note extractor

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

2006/11/18, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2006/11/17, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk
> <mailto:jamiemcc blueyonder co uk >>:
>
>     Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
>      > 2006/11/16, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk
>     <mailto: jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>
>      > <mailto:jamiemcc blueyonder co uk
>     <mailto:jamiemcc blueyonder co uk >>>:
>      >
>      >     Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
>      >      > I created a small tomboy note extractor (attached)... It
>     should
>      >     run on
>      >      > any system with a Python installation - I think the XML
>     parser I
>      >     use is
>      >      > bundled with Python.
>      >
>      >
>      >     hmm would prefer it internal to tracker in C to be honest.
>     The external
>      >     metadata extractors are driven by mime type so it would be
>     tricky/hacky
>      >     to do them via that mechanism (this is the same as our email
>     stuff -
>      >     its
>      >     all internal)
>      >
>      >     It should be real easy to do this in C if anyone's willing
>      >
>      >
>      > I could do that - I digged around the extraction code and it seemed
>      > fairly intuitive. Should I use libxml or just plain hardcoded
>     grep-like
>      > hacks (or libXYZ)?
>
>     use the glib xml parser (see abiword extractor)?
>
>
> Done. The abiword extractor uses custom "grepping" through the xml
> without any real parsing going on. I could probably do that too (and it
> might be simpler) but I felt the urge to get into this whole glib
> business :-)
>
> I haven't tested it with tracker though, I didn't know how to get
> trackerd to pick up my notes files (they have mime type text/plain and
> are in ~/.tomboy which isn't indexed by default).
>
> There is a small outcommented test main-function so you can compile the
> extractor as stand alone.
>
> Please don't publicly humiliate me - I'm really not a C-hacker... :-D
>
> Cheers,
> Mikkel
>

its mostly okay - just needs some tidying up of the code (spaces in
between function name and opening bracket, no underscores for private
functions etc)

I think I have done this now... There was also some jumbled up space/tab issues making the code look all weird, I hope that is fixed now too. I also added a GPL header.

There are missing GPL headers in many if the other extractors too. If you wish I can add those (on which I can dig out the original author).

will need to integrate it in trackerd along with code to pick up new or
changed tomboy notes - will do this for you after the 0.5.2 release
tomorrow (with some new dbus methods to make your life easier!)

Rock on!

Another thing; when I run my test prog through valgrind it reports a few leaks. I really can't find any in my code - does this perhaps come from glib messing up with valgrind?

Cheers,
Mikkel

Cheers,
Mikkel

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