Beagle and Tracker plugins for Gajim

[sam@…]

I have started to write a backend for Beagle to index Gajim's logs. It is available from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322540. If you are interested, please try it out!

[nk]

I took a quick look in your code.

you operate on logs_dir but svn has migrated to using sqlite logs.db (it also provides a script to migrate old logs)

moreover I failed to find some parsing logic of the files in that dir

NOTE: I cannot say if sqlite will in the end stay in 0.9, it seems to work okay and gives the advantages for which I chose to replace the old style logs, but suffers from concurrency problems which I 'll try to solve.

more: http://trac.gajim.org/wiki/MigrateLogToDot9DB http://trac.gajim.org/wiki/LogsDatabase http://www.phpguru.org/static/SQLite.NET.html

even if sqlite is abandoned, I'm sure some time has to be spent on making the design of the textfile (the metadata) somehow not so low-level

come in the room etc ;)

[multani]

Beagle use SQLite as a backend when extented_attribut are not present on the filesystem. I see that there is already a SQLite driver in Mono (at least in Beagle source code), in the Mono.Data.SQLite namespace.

[nk]

great!

[sam@…]

I don't know if Beagle will actually index the sqlite database, or whether it only indexes the information fed to it from the GajimLog? class. I suppose if the worst comes to the worst, the Beagle backend can add a beagle_last_indexed (jid, timestamp) table to the database, and periodically dump out the chat history to its own set of text files.

[D Bera]

Beagle will not _automatically_ parse the sqlite file. The gajim backend has to fetch information from the gajim sqlite db and send it to beagle. Mono.Data.SQLite is already there - so there wont be any problem in opening and reading sqlite files in the gajim backend.

[nk]

now that Gajim .9.1 is out, any news on this?

[anonymous]

Someone with irc name multani started and succeeded in writing a basic gajim backend. This is the link to the discussion in beagle irc channel: (near the end) http://www.gympoh.edu.sk/~lipka/irclogs/dashboard.log.21Dec2005 (continued here) http://www.gympoh.edu.sk/~lipka/irclogs/dashboard.log.22Dec2005

[multani]

Damn, i'm spotted ;)

I started written a backend, but I didn't finish it yet (no much time currenty) ...

As far as I remember, it's quite dirty : gajim log isn't really indexed, but Best search in the logs.db each time we query it.

[nk]

ask in Beagle?

[Gego]

Gajim s devs shood take a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=973151644136154342&q=beagle+search

every program shood be able to be search every program... I want to be able to search my logs..

[anonymous]

is there a reason to close this?

[anonymous]

Please consider implementing a Tracker search plugin before Beagle. Since it looks like Tracker is going to be the default "search" tool in Gnome.

[steve-e]

I would like to have this feature, but it is not a priority for now. At least not for us.