-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: | 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.
Yes, but then I'd have to serialize that dictionary myself in order to send it over a Tube. | |> 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 . This sounds perfect. In Activity code, how do a I get a journal-entry-bundle from a datastore objectid, or datastore file path? - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHz0OJUJT6e6HFtqQRAlY4AJwJ9NFPnW+vGeQrpkTM8RqlnBQOVACePPA+ /wKXl7Vz7hYCs1hB7LIRBqk= =aORy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
