Re: [Tracker] Using tracker extractors from other applications

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus rath org>]

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus-BTH8mxji4b0 public gmane org> writes:
> > extractor = ExtractorHelper ()
> > results = extractor.get_metadata (filename)
> >
> > results is a dictionary with property as key, and a list of values as value.
> > There are few tricks in the translation property->key (because of anonymous
> > nodes)... but i think that with some prints you can figure out how it works.
>
> This seems to work fine for the OpenOffice file:
> but for the plain text file, there are no contents:

Upon closer investigation, get_metadata() fails whenever it encounters a
text/plain file that contains a '['. Looking at the code, this does not
seem surprising.

Is the format of the string that's returned by GetMetadata() described
somewhere? Then I could try to fix the parser.


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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