Metadata Convenience Fallback Functions

Metadata Convenience Fallback Functions

Metadata Convenience Fallback Functions — Helper functions to retrieve metadata or text for common files

Synopsis


#include <libtracker-module/tracker-module-metadata-utils.h>

TrackerModuleMetadata* tracker_module_metadata_utils_get_data
                                                        (GFile *file);
gchar*              tracker_module_metadata_utils_get_text
                                                        (GFile *file);

Description

Details

tracker_module_metadata_utils_get_data ()

TrackerModuleMetadata* tracker_module_metadata_utils_get_data
                                                        (GFile *file);

Returns a TrackerModuleMetadata filled in with all the metadata that could be extracted for the given file.

`file` :	A GFile
Returns :	A newly created TrackerModuleMetadata, or `NULL` if the file is not found.

tracker_module_metadata_utils_get_text ()

gchar*              tracker_module_metadata_utils_get_text
                                                        (GFile *file);

Gets the text from file, if the file is considered as containing plain text, it will be extracted, else this function will resort to the installed text filters for the file MIME type.

`file` :	A GFile
Returns :	A newly allocated string containing the file text, or `NULL`.

See Also

TrackerModuleMetadata, tracker_module_file_get_metadata() and tracker_module_file_get_text()