Re: [Tracker] Can i directly use Tracker API with application

[Alexandre Mazari <alexandre mazari gmail com>]

Hi Ivan,
> You can call tracker without any special registration. We provide  
> libtracker-client as a convenience for C developers (and our command  
> line tools), wrapping some DBus code and encoding help functions.
> So, if your application is in C, use libtracker-client. If it is in  
> vala or python or other languages with easier DBus integration, go  
> for the DBus API.

Even in higher level languages, it would be great to be able to use  
the commodities provided by tracker-client and use DBus transparently.
My current use case is making a tracker frontend using SeedKit. based  
on one of the many existing web-based semantic/linked-data browsers.
This could be achieved for most bindings by making tracker-client g- 
instrospectable, is there any effort in this direction ? Would patches  
be welcomed ?

From what I understand your are investigating a direct access to  
Tracker with your own binary IPC/RMI protocol, tracker-client could  
hide that transition to client apps developers, being in C or  higher  
level languages.

Happy coding,

> Regards,
>
> Ivan
>
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