On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read all the documents I could find, and also the Sugar source, and > I am still confused: > > How can an activity get an object representing all the metadata for its > current datastore object?
Can you please elaborate? Are you using the python API? If so, Activity.metadata contains a dictionary with all the properties for the current object. > I ask because I am writing a trivial "Distribute" Activity, whose purpose > is to copy journal entries from one XO to another by sharing. This is > working, but since the copy does not have any metadata, like MIME type, it > cannot be opened from the Journal interface by any Activity except > Distribute, which created it. > > Ideally, I would like to acquire the metadata as a dbus object, so that I > may simply shove it over a DBus Tube and then pass it on to the receiver's > datastore. What if you serialize the whole entry (file + metadata) inside a zip file and distribute that? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_entry_bundles The journal has already support for installing to the DS these serialized entries: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=journal-activity;a=blob;f=journalentrybundle.py Added because of http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4380 . Hope that helps, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
