293256 - Spotlight Importer plugin for Mac-OS-X 10.4

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 293231

(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]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 293231 ***