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

[James "Doc" Livingston]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 21:49 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> An example of client side grouping could be a music application, where
> searching for "foo fighters" would add "mime:audio/*" to the query
> before sending it. As I said I'm not for client side grouping, a
> server side grouping could still facilitate a client side grouping
> anyway. 

This is actually the perfect example of why using mime-types for this
won't actually work: the mime types for Ogg Vorbis files and M4A files
are application/ogg and video/quicktime respectively, which are also the
mime types of video files in the same containers. Because of this,
simply filtering on "mime:audio/*" won't work.


Correctly determining which category it falls in requires looking inside
the container, which the indexer would presumably do. So I think that
having "groups" (or whatever they get called) as part of the spec,
rather than a client-side thing, would be important.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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