Re: [Tracker] using the dbus interface

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 17:28 -0600, Dan Kuester wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking into using tracker as the center of a heavily
> metadata-oriented music playback application written in python (1).  I
> chose tracker because I appreciate it as a user - especially for its
> minimal resource consumption and strong support for interesting music
> metadata.
>
> Can anyone suggest the best way to embed search calls in python?  From
> the code I've read in svn, dbus looks like the (only?) way.  While I
> am all for dbus-foo, it has become clear that at tracker's
> /org/freedesktop/tracker interfaces have not stabilized (2); this
> combined with the lack of external documentation that I can find makes
> me unsure about which methods are intended to be more stable.
>
> Can anyone describe (or point me a the document which describes) which
> dbus interfaces are meant to be deprecated or are unmaintained, and
> which are more stable?  Am I far off base, and there is there a better
> way for me to be making tracker calls?
>
> Thanks everybody, and keep up the good work! :)
> Dan Kuester
>
> (1) Anybody who wants to bring up reactions to my desire to write yet
> another music player is welcome to bring it up with me separately, but
> I'm not interested in discussing this in this thread.
>
> (2)  As an example, tracker_dbus_method_search_metadata seems
> effectively disabled in src/trackerd/traker-search-search.c:
>
> //      res = tracker_db_search_metadata (db_con, service, field,
> text, offset, limit);
>         res = NULL;
>
> Further, the implementation comments (the only documentation?) seems
> to be missing  to the dbus call.  Is this meant to be deprecated?


not yet but most of the api will be deprecated in favour of xesam - I
cant say which bits we be deprecated yet though