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Ping? :-)

- Boudhayan Gupta


On Oct. 24, 2015, 5:49 p.m., Boudhayan Gupta wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 24, 2015, 5:49 p.m.)
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> Review request for Baloo, KDE Frameworks, Pinak Ahuja, and Vishesh Handa.
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> Repository: kfilemetadata
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> Description
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> This patch introduces support for external metadata extractors in 
> KFileMetaData
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> The external extractors themselves can be written in any language, provided 
> that it can be executed as a standalone executable (compiled or script with a 
> hashbang), with command line arguments, and can output data to stdout.
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> The extractors are executed like so:
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> * `extractor --mimetypes` - outputs a list of mimetypes supported by the 
> extractor, one per line.
> * `extractor filename` - outputs a json document with the metadata. The keys 
> are such that they can be directly used with PropertyInfo::fromName().
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> At the KFileMetaData end, an additional internal plugin (ExternalExtractor) 
> is provided that forms a conduit between external extractors and the internal 
> API. This plugin looks for executables called 
> kfilemetadata_extractor_<something> in /usr/bin to find external extractors, 
> and executes them with the --mimetypes arg to find the list of mimetypes each 
> extractor supports. ExternalExtractor then claims to support all of these 
> mimetypes, and then delegates to the extractor executable when doing the 
> actual extraction.
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> Diffs
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>   README.md 19b1a26 
>   src/extractors/CMakeLists.txt 5dd223e 
>   src/extractors/externalextractor.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/extractors/externalextractor.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125762/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested with the sample executable file extractor (as attched, written in 
> python) with the dump manual test in KFileMetaData. Works.
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> File Attachments
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> kfilemetadata_extractor_executable
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> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/10/23/146b657f-31d9-4117-a82f-ef966a6339d4__kfilemetadata_extractor_executable
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> Thanks,
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> Boudhayan Gupta
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