Spotlight search

[erne]

on 3-03-2008 21:23, Thorsten Hohage at thohage at objectmanufactur.com wrote:

> Hi Erne,
> 
> On 2008-03-03, at 12:27, Erne wrote:
> 
>> is there a way to let Spotlight find contents in a Vale DB file?
>> 
>> Just curious (haven't read Spotlight APIs yet so I don't know if it
>> could be possible and how)
> 
> 
> I asked the same and wrote even many more lines with thoughts and
> ideas. But to be honest there is (currently) no way and this is due to
> Apple!!!
> 
> While Apple offers plug-in APIs for so many things, Apple didn't offer
> any thing for Spotlight when thinking about Databases! Btw. this is
> the reason why they internally changed the format of the iCal or Mail
> files (=databases!). I talked several months ago with somebody from
> Apple Developer Relations about this issue and he mentioned that Apple
> _might_ be thinking about / working on a solution they need for their
> own apps. Especially since Spotlight in 10.5 is now able to search a
> server (through remote request the spotlight DB on the server, not
> "searching" the server for real).
> 
> 
> So for now if you must deliver a spotlight solution, you need to write
> all data needed to an additional file (preferred per record) and then
> write the appropriate plugin for spotlight for these files. But this
> only make sense, if you not try to store the whole db inside these
> files.

Thanks Thorsten for your kind reply


Cool Runnings,
Erne.
-- 
Ernesto Giannotta  
Musical Box - a media store