Re: [Tracker] Handling arrays in XMP

[Jon Phillips <jon rejon org>]

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 12:16 +0100, jamie wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 17:42 -0700, Jason Kivlighn wrote:
> >         
> >         1) we do handle multiple value for some metadata but only
> >         where said
> >         metadata is defined as supporting multiple values eg like
> >         keywords
> >
> > Is it possible to extract multiple values from tracker-extract?  As
> > far as I can see, this isn't possible with GHashTable.
>
> we have not had the need to in tracker-extract and thats why the code
> for that is not present there
>
> in trackerd, the code is present to handle it (The hashtable takes a
> GSList of values instead of a string)
>
> tracker-extract needs to be reworked with hopefully some XESAM style
> output so that extractors can be shared across indexers so it might be
> best to wait for that to happen. In the meantime just extract the first
> value only and comment out the code for multiple values so we can re
> enable it later

Or, Jamie, can you outline the steps to add this XESAM style output so
that Jason could take a crack at it?

Jon

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