Common spec/interface for file metadata

[Jamie McCracken]

Jamie McCracken wrote:

> You might also want to have a search method for VFS or apps so
> 
> SearchMetaData
>   input DBUS_TYPE_STRING s (the search string)
>   output DBUS_TYPE_ARRAY as (array of matching file uris)
> 
> The search string here should be freetext as in google/beagle but also 
> could include some of the metadata type names (enclosed in square 
> brackets). EG "[Author]=Jamie" would return all files with Jamie as 
> author while just "jamie" would return anything that contained the word 
> jamie anywhere (whether its in the metadata or in the indexed contents 
> of a file).
> 

I should also add that this will also make adding vFolder support to VFS 
and filemanagers trivial.

So to create a vfolder for all images/pictures you would just pass 
"[MimeType]=image/*" to the search method.


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Mr Jamie McCracken
http://www.advogato.org/person/jamiemcc/