Re: cascading spotlight importer

FROM : Uli Kusterer
DATE : Sun Jun 25 20:08:46 2006

Am 25.06.2006 um 19:42 schrieb Erik Sjödin:
> I would like to extend apples spotlight importer for images to index
> additional metadata. Does anyone know how to do this (I know it's
> possible since it's been done in SpotMeta) or if cascading metadata
> importers will become possible in future os x releases? Even though
> it's doeable, it seems unnecessary to have to re-implement the entire
> image importer just to index a few extra exif tags that aren't indexed
> by the default importer (which is what I'd like to do).


  That's not supported as of 10.4. You can only have one importer per 
type. The only way I know of is SpotMeta, but I don't know how the 
author did it. I guess he's patching something and wrote some code to 
have one importer manually find and call through to the other 
importer. If you're interested in taking that approach, I'd suggest 
you try the Spotlight-Dev mailing list, because it's very likely the 
Spotmeta author and other knowledgeable people hang out there and can 
help you get it working.

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de