| Summary: | External access to digiKam searches | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] digikam | Reporter: | Ian Hubbertz <kde_bugs> |
| Component: | Plugin-Generic-WishForNewTools | Assignee: | Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | caulier.gilles, marcel.wiesweg |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 0.10.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Ian Hubbertz
2009-01-06 21:15:30 UTC
The easiest solution for this would be to implement the listDir method in the digikamsearch ioslave. Currently the listing uses a custom format, but standard listDir would be possible as well. As to the library you are talking about: Look at the digikamsearch ioslave, it is only a bit of glue code. There are the libraries libdigikamcore.so and libdigikamdatabase where all necessary code is contained. But: this is not public API, which means that API and BC will change with every digikam version. So the option above is to be preferred. I started to write some digikam python bindings with boost.python, which should be quite easy. However, digikamcore.so links to a lot of other libs (e.g libmarblewidget.so), so this will be a quite heavy python library. What do you mean by "heavy python library"? (Large resulting file/slow to load/difficult to use/many functions ... ? ;-) Just as a remark: marble itself also has python bindings (though I haven't tested them myself, and they need to be activated during cmake). Moreover, let me also mention https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146866 which is about KROSS support for digikam (which would also provide, among others, a python interface; more details are in that link). Personally I think that providing a python interface to digikam could/should have a substantial impact in that it would allow users which are not familiar with coding C++ to provide additional tools/scripts/.... I want to stress the issue of libdigikamcore and libdigikamdatabase once more: We created these libraries to efficiently share code among the various components of digikam. It's just the main part of digikam s code. Disclaimer: this is not a public interface, there is and will be no stable API, interfaces will change between every single minor release. The Kross interface is pretty interesting. I did not read about the Kross API yet and have only a vague idea, but a scripting API can allow powerful addons. It seems that there is an implementation in C#, using Mono.Fuse http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/2006-September/002027.html Not sure if this still works with 0.10 .... As Marcel Said in comment #4, the solution to this issue is to add a scriptting interface to digiKam. We have already a file about this topic with bug #146866 Gilles Caulier *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146866 *** |