293231 - Spotlight Importer plugin for Mac-OS-X 10.4

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[David Weber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Firefox/1.0.3 (PPC-970-optimiert, 1.0.3-DE, 17.4.2005, Hilarious)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Firefox/1.0.3 (PPC-970-optimiert, 1.0.3-DE, 17.4.2005, Hilarious)

Mac-OS-X 10.4 new search engine offers safari bookmark indexing. I would like to
have the same thing for Firefox, too

Reproducible: Always




I have tried to build an .mdimporter bundle of myself:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MDImporters/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001267


But it looks like it's to complicated to me.

My first problem: How to identify the file 'bookmarks.html'? the .mdimporter
identfies its files by file type, not by name or path. sadly the mozilla
bookmarks are a standard html file. I have defined this ( in info.plist):

<key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
			<string>org.mozilla.firefox.bookmarks</string>
			<key>UTTypeReferenceURL</key>
			<string>http://www.mozilla.org/firefox</string>
			<key>UTTypeDescription</key>
			<string>Firefox Bookmarks</string>
			<key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
			<array>
				<string>public.html</string>
				<string>public.text</string>
			</array>
			<key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
			<dict>
				<key>public.filename-extension</key>
				<string>bookmarks.html</string>
			</dict>
		</dict>
	</array>


I am not sure how if "public.filename-extension" = "bookmarks.html" will work?
normaly this has to be something like only "html". but i dont want to index all
.html files

My second problem is how to extrack the data. this has to be done in
GetMetadataForFile.c GetMetadataForFile():

Boolean GetMetadataForFile(void* thisInterface, 
			   CFMutableDictionaryRef attributes, 
			   CFStringRef contentTypeUTI,
			   CFStringRef pathToFile)
{
    /* Pull any available metadata from the file at the specified path */
    /* Return the attribute keys and attribute values in the dict */
    /* Return true if successful, false if there was no data provided */
    Boolean success=NO;
    NSDictionary *tempDict;
    NSAutoreleasePool *pool;

    // Don't assume that there is an autorelease pool around the calling of this
function.
    pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    // load the document at the specified location
    tempDict=[[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:(NSString *)pathToFile];
    if (tempDict)
    {
    // set the kMDItemTitle attribute to the Name of the Bookmark
    [(NSMutableDictionary *)attributes setObject:[tempDict objectForKey:@"title"]
                          forKey:(NSString *)kMDItemTitle];

    // set the kMDItemWhereFroms attribute to an URL of the Bookmark
    // value
    [(NSMutableDictionary *)attributes setObject:[NSArray
arrayWithObject:[tempDict objectForKey:@"author"]]
                          forKey:(NSString *)kMDItemWhereFroms];


    // set our custom document notes attribute to the Notes value
    // (in the real world, you'd likely use the kMDItemTextContent attribute,
however that
    // would make it hard to demonstrate using a custom key!)
    [(NSMutableDictionary *)attributes setObject:[tempDict objectForKey:@"notes"]

                         
forKey:@"com_apple_myCocoaDocumentApp_myCustomDocument_notes"];


    // return YES so that the attributes are imported
    success=YES;

    // release the loaded document
    [tempDict release];
    }
    [pool release];
    return success;

if someone knows how to help me or wants the entire source code, please contact me

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Pink is already experimenting in Camino :
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/archives/008096.html

Comment 2

[David Weber]

i have looked at his code. it seams that he exports the camino bookmarks to an
extra file that is compatible with the safari spotlight importer. this is a
great idea. maybe this could be done in firefox with a firefox plugin.

//
308 // -writeBookmarksMetaDatatoPath:
309 //
310 // Writes out the meta data for this bookmark to a file with the name of
this item's UUID
311 // in the given path. Using the suffix "webbookmark" allows us to pick up on
the Spotlight
312 // importer already on Tiger for Safari.
313 //
314 -(void)writeBookmarksMetadataToPath:(NSString*)inPath
315 {
316   NSDictionary* dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: 
317                                       mTitle, @"Name",
318                                       mURL, @"URL",
319                                       nil];
320   NSString* file = [self UUID];
321   NSString* path = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@.webbookmark", inPath,
file];
322   [dict writeToFile:path atomically:YES];
323 }
324 

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 293256 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

xref bug 290057 (Spotlight in Thunderbird)

Comment 5

[Martijn (MozBrowser.nl)]

What is the relation with the Spotlight-integration in Camino (
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/archives/008096.html ) ?

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

why do you need an importer? why not just re-use the one safari uses? that's
what we did in camino.

i see no reason to do this work.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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