On 08.04.2012, at 15:45, Jörn Friedrich Dreyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Am 08.04.2012 11:14 schrieb "Frank Karlitschek" <[email protected]>: > > The problem is, of course, that it has external dependencies like tracker > > obviously but it can still be very useful for power users who have tracerd > > running. So this is a nice optional feature imho. > Indeed, running trackerd requires shell access to the server and will sadly > not be useable out of the box. I looked at the scanning code of the gallery > but did not find a nicer way, yet. > > > The challenge is that indexing has to be done through ownCloud because this > > is the only way to access encrypted, shared and remote files. > I feared you might ask something like this ;) Hehe. Sorry :) > > > Do you think tracer can access the ownCloud files via WebDAB? or do we have > > to provide a different interface? > To be honest, I don't think it makes much sense to introduce another layer > like davfs2 to let trackerd index the content via a webdav share. The setup > is fragile as it is, but works for my personal use case where I do not need > encryption on the server side. Nevertheless, I understand the requirement for > full text search of encrypted files. I would argue that the extracted index > itself reveals a lot of information about the encrypted content, thus it kind > of defeats the purpose. > While my heart as a software engineer is bleeding even thinking about it, I > fear the best way to provide full text search for ownCloud is to port the > indexing algorithm to PHP: > - It will get rid of external dependencies. > - Index and meta information can be updated upon access via webdav or the > webfrontend. > - Searching can take file permissions into consideration (other than just > filtering the results by path...) This sounds like a huge task. > I'll think on this till the developer meeting. Let´s talk about this next weekend :-) > So long > > Jörn CU Frank _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
