simple search api (was Re: mimetype standardisation by testsets)

[johnflux at gmail.com]

Could you reword "Count the number of instances of a file that match a
particular query."  to "Count the number of files that match a
particular query"   if I have understood that correctly.



On 19/11/06, Jos van den Oever <jvdoever at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mikkel,
>
> Yes, the common dbus api is still something we need. I wanted to start
> on the metadata standarization first, but we can do the searching api
> in parallel. You make a good start in listing the available engines.
> There might even be more. To coordinate we need a process that lists
> the available search engines over dbus. An application should be able
> to say: I want to search using a particular interface with the
> available search engines.
>
> The attached archive contains an effort to do two things:
> - propose a very simple, common api for search engines
> - implement such a coordinating daemon
>   The code contains the daemon, a demo search application and a python
> client to access it by finding the search engine over the
> searchmanager.
>
> The proposal for the search api is _very_ simple and I call for
> application developers to see if the function calls in there are
> sufficient.
> Here i paste them for convenience:
>
>
>  interface org.freedesktop.search.simple
>
> method startConfiguration ( )
> Open a graphical interface for configuring of search tool.
>
> method countHits ( in s query , out i count )
> Count the number of instances of a file that match a particular query.
> Input:
> query
>     The query being performed.
> Output:
> count
>     The number of documents that match the query.
>
> method query ( in s query, in i offset, in i limit , out as hits )
> Perform a query and return a list of files that match the query.
> Input:
> query
>     The query being performed.
> offset
>     The offset in the result list for the first returned result.
> limit
>     The maximum number of results that should be returned.
>
> Output:
> hits
>     A list if filenames that are the result of the query.
>
> method getProperties ( in as files,in a(sa(sas)) properties )
> Get properties for the given files.
> Input:
> files
>     A list of files for which properties should be returned.
> properties
>     The properties belonging to each file. Each property is a name
> associated with a list of string values. The index of each property
> map in the list corresponds to the index of the filename in the list
> of files.
>
> 2006/11/3, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
> > > 2006/10/30, Jos van den Oever <
> > >
> > > jvdoever at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > > To make it a bit more concrete (yes, you're probably not running
> > > > strigi svn) here's some code that generates the xml output using
> > > > kde3's metadata framework. I'm sure doing the same for other programs
> > >
> > >
> > > > is easy too. Then comes the hard task: making it all consistent.
> > >
> > > Here's already a new version of the kde3 code. I forgot to escape the
> > > special xml entities.
> > > It's probably a good idea to open up a project in svn for this stuff.
> > >
> > >
> > > If there's enough interest about it, that is. Can someone arrange
> > > that? The testcases should also go in there.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Jos
> > >
> >
> >  Picking up the track from Gnome d-d-l I am interested in hearing if your
> > are also looking into a unifying dbus api for desktop indexers? Being a
> > deskbar developer I am greatly interested in this part of a potential
> spec.
> >
> >
> > If you are more on the metadata extraction part of it now (as it would
> seem)
> > I can try and make an overview of the current available apis, and try to
> > make some form of synthesis we can use as a base for further discussion...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mikkel
> >
> >
> > PS: What indexers are around (and actively developed/maintained, and
> > actually has working code):
> >
> >  - Tracker http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/
> >
> >  - Beagle http://beagle-project.org/
> >  - Strigi
> > http://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/
> >  - Pinot http://pinot.berlios.de/
> >  - GLSCube http://www.glscube.org/
> >  - Nepomuk
> > http://nepomuk-kde.semanticdesktop.org (do
> > they have any code?)
> >
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