Perhaps this would be an interesting feature for "DVFS-light", because
its "ls" function returns the file-info as key/value map. Therefore
returning file-metadata would be quite easy (if requested in the {OPTS}
of "ls").
regards,
Norbert
Jamie McCracken wrote:
Alexander Larsson wrote:
While such an API is simple and works for some apps its certainly not
gonna be usable for applications like file managers or indexers. Calling
a separate out of process RPC for each file while loading a directory
would totally kill performance.
If it were needed to be called on each file while loading a directory
(which would only be for limited things like the mime type) then we
could also have an API to return a specific metadata for each file in
a directory in one shot.
EG
GetMimeTypesForFilesInFolder
input DBUS_TYPE_STRING s (the folder uri)
output DBUS_TYPE_DICT a{ss} (the metadata as filename, mimetype)
Most of the other metadata would be retrieved on demand by users
requesting to see additional metadata for a file so the previous API
should suffice for that.
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