Re: [Tracker] [Fwd: Re: [Xesam] Need paged search mode for xesam]

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:07 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> thats fine but rename "a" and ""b params to offset, count

Ok, shall I go ahead and already commit this in indexer-split branch, or
do you think it's better for the people on the Xesam list to make some
sort of decision about this DBus namespace?


> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:19 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > Hey Jamie,
> >
> > About the Xesam discussion for range-searches, here's a patch that would
> > add the remote API to the indexer-split branch. If there's some sort of
> > OK from Mikkel I plan to commit this to the branch (or else adapt it to
> > the proposed API).
> >
> >
> > email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Re: [Xesam] Need paged
> > search mode for xesam"
> > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > > From: Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>
> > > To: Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>
> > > Cc: jamie mccrack gmail com, xesam lists freedesktop org
> > > Subject: Re: [Xesam] Need paged search mode for xesam
> > > Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:15:14 +0200
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:16 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > > > 2008/5/7 Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>:
> > >
> > > >         I think we would need:
> > >
> > > >         GetPagedHits
> > > >         GetPagedHitData
> > >
> > > >         to cover all use cases
> > > >
> > > > If there is more than one method needed for paging nirvana it begins
> > > > to make sense to add a org.freedesktop.xesam.PagedSear
> > > > ch interface to the spec. This can go in 1.1 (and if we can mature it
> > > > fast enough it should not be a problem for Nokia to depend upon it
> > > > before 1.1 is out). 
> > >
> > > Here's a first proposal:
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <node name="/org/freedesktop/xesam">
> > >   <interface name="org.freedesktop.xesam.Search">
> > >   ...
> > >   </interface>
> > >
> > >   <interface name="org.freedesktop.xesam.PagedSearch">
> > >       <method name="GetRangeHits">
> > >       <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value="true"/>
> > >       <arg type="s" name="search" direction="in" />
> > >       <arg type="u" name="a" direction="in" />
> > >       <arg type="u" name="b" direction="in" />
> > >       <arg type="aav" name="hits" direction="out" />
> > >     </method>
> > >
> > >     <method name="GetRangeHitData">
> > >       <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.Async" value="true"/>
> > >       <arg type="s" name="search" direction="in" />
> > >       <arg type="u" name="a" direction="in" />
> > >       <arg type="u" name="b" direction="in" />
> > >       <arg type="as" name="fields" direction="in" />
> > >       <arg type="aav" name="hit_data" direction="out" />
> > >     </method>
> > >   </interface>
> > > </node>
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