Re: [Tracker] The tracker-store and tracker-store-queue branches

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

The API's namespace and thus filename got renamed:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/tree/src/tracker-store/tracker-store.h?h=tracker-store-queue


On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:54 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:27 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
>
> > We hope that our community contributors will somehow find a way to join
> > us in our efforts. We're trying really hard to keep you guys involved.
> > But being a team of people, we're also working pretty fast nowadays.
>
> I'll explain one such experiment that I started myself today:
>
> Because tracker-store will be receiving large amounts of requests to
> store something it's possible that unless handled the requests would
> slow the service down.
>
> Meanwhile it's actually the case that queries have precedence over the
> storage requests.
>
> When asking a query, an application doesn't want to wait on a batch of
> storage requests that came from another application.
>
> For this I started the branch tracker-store-queue [1]
>
> It introduces the internal TrackerStoreQueue API in tracker-store's
> process. This internal API is not the API that must be used by apps to
> store things. We have a DBus method called SparqlUpdate for this. It's
> indeed the case that the DBus method is implemented in the service using
> the TrackerStoreQueue API.
>
>
> [2] Is how the API looks
>
> Other components that will use this internal API include the TTL import
> and the Push modules. The queue will be used to reorder update and query
> requests based on priority.
>
> If you read the implementation you'll notice that we use the GMainLoop
> together with GQueue. This is a design decision (we are reluctant to
> start using a thread, for example by using GThreadPool, unless really
> needed).
>
>
> --- 
>
> [1] http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/log/?h=tracker-store-queue
> [2] http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/tree/src/tracker-store/tracker-store-queue.h?h=tracker-store-queue
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