Re: [Tracker] URI support

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos imendio com>]

On mar, 2008-11-18 at 13:55 +0100, JÃrg Billeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tracker currently uses a mix of local file paths and URIs and they are
> used in different encodings and sometimes split into dirname and
> basename and sometimes not. I've been working on the uri branch in SVN
> to clean up the confusion.
>
> The Path column in the Services table has been replaced by a Uri column
> which stores the full URI, not just the dirname as was the case before.
> The Name column stays the same but is not used anymore to identify a
> service. To accommodate the database changes, I had to increase the
> database version, which means that Tracker will perform a reindexing.
> Functions in libtracker-data that had dirname and basename parameters
> now have a uri parameter as they are not only used for files.
>
> tracker-indexer has been modified to use URIs when we don't know whether
> it's a file or an email and to use GFile when dealing with files. This
> also changes the tracker-indexer-module API.

The tracker-indexer-module is largely rewritten here in my local branch
and it already takes GFiles into account, so I suggest you not to do any
change at all there. Wonders of communication

> The D-Bus methods already had a uri parameter, however, you had to
> sometimes use local file paths before, now you always have to pass a
> valid URI.
>
> The code is available in the uri branch in SVN. I've tested it here and
> it seems to work well, however, it'd be nice if other people could
> review and test the changes, too. Any questions or comments on the DB
> and API changes?
>
>  38 files changed, 625 insertions(+), 924 deletions(-)
>
> JÃrg
>
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