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
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