Re: [Tracker] The org.freedesktop.Tracker.Files.Create method

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:00 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2008/7/3 Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>:

> Daze[1] actually use org.freedesktop.Tracker.Files.Exist to store user
> annotations directly in Tracker. So the API is indeed of use. However
> another incarnation of it may be more in order.

The Files namespace would indicate to me that it's strictly about files.
Unless the file must be created doesn't Files.Create make a lot of sense
to me. Files.Exist should be called Files.IsIndexed.

If Files.Create is for creating arbitrary records that don't necessarily
represent a thing like a real file, I personally would call it something
like:

Arbitrary.Create or 
Objects.Create or 
Indexables.Create

Files.Create right now puts something in file-meta.db, but file-meta is
clearly for "real files"-only. Maybe a arbitrary-meta.db is in place.


> With my Xesam hat on I imagine that the Xesam Metadata Storage spec is
> going to have something like:
>
> CreateRecord (content, source, fields)

CreateRecord would make sense, except that it tells too much about the
implementation detail of 'records' being used, in my opinion.

For the user of Xesam, it doesn't matter how the indexer stores things.

> Where one could store a purely virtual record in the db. The indexer
> should automatically pick this up somehow. I have not really thought
> the API through so please don't take CreateRecord to seriously. I do
> however see the need for something along those lines.

Okay :)

> [1]: Daze was a part-serious part-sample application I stirred
> together to test Tracker. See http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=173

Sure, we can probably adapt it easily to start using a more meaningful
remote Tracker API? :)

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