Re: [Tracker] Using tracker extractors from other applications

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus rath org>]

On 11/18/2010 03:41 PM, Ivan Frade wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus rath org
> <mailto:Nikolaus rath org>> wrote:
>
>     Martyn Russell <martyn-bhGbAngMcJvQT0dZR+AlfA public gmane org
>     <mailto:martyn-bhGbAngMcJvQT0dZR%2BAlfA public gmane org>> writes:
>     > On 17/11/10 00:02, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>     >
>     This gives me the following result:
>
>     ...
>
>     So it seems that I still have to parse the entire string. Is there a way
>     to get the data in more structured form?
>
>
>  We have code in python doing that for our extraction test cases. Check
> the class ExtractorHelper in:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/tree/tests/functional-tests/common/utils/helpers.py
>
>   Basically:
> extractor = ExtractorHelper ()
> results = extractor.get_metadata (filename)

That looks great, thanks!

> In our tests we don't specify the mimetype and they work fine.

So what are you passing as `mime` in get_metadata? `None`, an empty string?


>     Also, with a plain text document
>
>        tracker.GetMetadata('file:///home/nikratio/misc/Victoria.tex',
>     'text/plain')
>
>     I do not get any contents:
>
>     (dbus.String(u''), dbus.String(u' a nfo:PlainTextDocument .\n'))
>
>     Am I doing something wrong?


Do you by any chance also have an idea of why this isn't working?




Best,

   -Nikolaus

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