Hey Tom,
Here's a nice overview of how a beagle filter works
http://beagle-project.org/Beagle_Filter_Anatomy
Basicaly, pass the text you want to index (but not store, except maybe
in our compressed textcache) to the method AppendText (string s);
On 8/4/06, Tom Lofts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> I don't have much knowledge of beagle, entagged or mono, so the patch
> has been kind of cobbled together based on example code, though I'll do
> my best to answer these questions.
>
> > For the Beagle code, you are doing a foreach over the tags. A few
> > questions:
> >
> > * Can tag.Tag.Get() ever return something which isn't an
> > IEnumerable? For example, can it ever return null? If so, this
> > will throw an exception when that happens and you'll need to
> > check for it.
>
> AFAIK entagged handles this bit. The exception is caught in Tag.Get()
> with this code:
>
> if(list == null) {
> return new ArrayList();
> }
>
> > * How are the lyrics stored in the LYR field? Line by line?
> > All of the lyrics in one element? We don't want to do one field
> > per line. It may also make sense to make this the content of
> > the file, rather than putting it in a property.
>
> The entire contents of the LYR bit are stored as one element. I don't
> see any need to have it seperated and stored line by line. I'm not sure
> what you mean by making this the content of the file? How does beagle
> index it if it's not a property (sorry if I'm being really stupid here).
>
> > * You may want to use Beagle.Property.NewUnstored() to save disk
> > space in the index if you don't expect to pull the lyrics
> > themselves from the index. (Seems like it would make more sense
> > to pull them from the file itself.)
>
> Yes that would make sense I think, IMO the lyrics only need to be
> searched and not stored, cheers.
>
> Hope that answers all your questions.
>
> Tom
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