Re: [Tracker] Could not get metadata for PDF

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus rath org>]

Philip Van Hoof <spam-+mS4aLmNmLKG5XvV6lv2jw public gmane org> writes:
> On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 12:47 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When trying to extract metadata using the DBUS API, I get the following
> > error (only for this file):
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
> >     return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
> >     **keywords)
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
> >     message, timeout)
> > dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.TrackerDBus.Code0: Could not get 
> > any metadata for uri:'file:///tmp/tmpdrlo2W/Cleanroom%20Software%20Development.pdf' and mime:''
> >
> > When calling tracker-extract -f on the file directly, everything is
> > working fine.
>
> You're not passing the correct MIME type. Although I think
> tracker-extract will guess it if you omit that part. not sure.

I just tried passing the MIME type explicitly (application/pdf). Now the
exception is no longer raised, but tracker does not return any plain
text data either (which the command line version prints just fine).


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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