Hello ,
The code posted by Kaelin works great for me,
After counting the number of search results now I would like to know the path
of files found but to do this I have big difficulty
I'm trying to figure out how to make it works the
MDQueryGetAttributeValueOfResultAtIndex or MDItemCopyAttribute to read out the
KMDItemPath or KMDItemFSName but I was a bit confused by the "Pointer" returned
and even I get a # Illegal instruction as you can see in the following code:
framework "CoreServices"
#=> true
query = MDQueryCreate(KCFAllocatorDefault, "kMDItemDisplayName = '*.pdf'",
[KMDItemFSName,KMDItemPath] , nil)
#=> #<__NSCFType:0x2005d63a0>
MDQueryExecute(query, KMDQuerySynchronous)
#=> true
# item = MDQueryGetResultAtIndex(query, 1);
#=> #<Pointer:0x20052dc80>
count = MDQueryGetResultCount(query)
p "found #{count} documents" #=> 981
a = MDQueryGetAttributeValueOfResultAtIndex(query, KMDItemFSName, 2)
p a #<Pointer:0x20059aee0> ..not a NSString
p a[0] #0
p a[1] #4
item_ref = MDQueryGetResultAtIndex(query, 1)
p item_ref #<Pointer:0x200582460>
p item_ref.class #Pointer ..not a MDItemRef
path = MDItemCopyAttribute( item_ref, KMDItemPath) #Illegal instruction
p path
I've found an older post of 2009 titled: "[MacRuby-devel] spotlight -
MDItemRef" where Laurent said: "I'm afraid the MD* APIs haven't been covered by
BridgeSupport yet.."
but because of i can see the MDQueryGetResultCount working I hope that there is
a way to enumerate the results of the query to get the attributes ( path
especially )
I would be very happy if anyone has any idea,
Thanks
Franco
> Kaelin Colclausure
>
Kaelin Colclasure kaelin at apple.com
Tue Feb 8 11:49:39 PST 2011
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Martin,
The FinderFilesOnly stuff is not really relevant to other applications using
Spotlight. You should not need to do anything special to find email results.
Try, for example, using the mdfind command from Terminal:
$ mdfind -literal 'kMDItemAuthorEmailAddresses == *'
If your query is not returning any results, there is probably something else
going on. Here is a quick example using macirb:
---8<---
[kaelin at melete trunk]$ macirb
irb(main):001:0> framework 'CoreServices'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> query = MDQueryCreate(KCFAllocatorDefault,
"kMDItemAuthorEmailAddresses == *", nil, nil)
=> #<__NSCFType:0x4001149e0>
irb(main):003:0> MDQueryExecute(query, KMDQuerySynchronous)
=> true
irb(main):004:0> MDQueryGetResultCount(query)
=> 66883
irb(main):005:0>
--->8---
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