Re: [Tracker] Using tracker extractors from other applications
- From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus rath org>
- To: tracker-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Tracker] Using tracker extractors from other applications
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:59:55 -0500
Martyn Russell <martyn-bhGbAngMcJvQT0dZR+AlfA public gmane org> writes:
I would like to use tracker's apparently quite extensive data-extraction
facilities in my own program. It seems that "tracker-extract -f<file>"
provides all the functionality that I want, but I am wondering if there
is a way to avoid having to re-parse output.
The -f command line is a convenience for testing. There is a d-bus API
you can use which tracker-miner-fs uses, for the spec see:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/tree/data/dbus/tracker-extract.xml
Will this work if the file that I'm interested is not included in the
tracker database? Because I would like to use really just the extractor,
without having the files being indexed by tracker.
I should add, we use the "Fast" interface, which uses file descriptor
passing to avoid memory fragmentation and copious copying. There is
also a non-fast API you can use for testing purposes or if you're not
intending to send/receive a lot of requests anyway (though we
discourage it generally if possible).
I will be using the Python dbus API, I'm not sure if this will allow fd
passing. But requests will only be generated one at a time by explicit
user interaction, so I hope that this will not be a problem.
It would also be nice if there would be a way to process multiple files
without having to start a new tracker-extract instance for every file.
Using d-bus you shouldn't need to worry about the invocation of
tracker-extract.
In that case I believe that I still need to start (and then stop) a
tracker instance that will provide the dbus service though...?
Best,
-Nikolaus
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