[interfacekit] Re: MimeDatabase
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: interfacekit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:27:16 CEST (+0200)
Weird, this mail just appeared in my new mails query after booting. The
live query update message apparently got lost when it was fetched from
my account earlier this day.
> > BTW, I finished the work on BNodeInfo. The tests are complete and
> > the
> > implementation passes them. The class is not included in the build
> > yet,
> > as it wouldn't work well with a partial BMimeType implementation. I
> > will add it as soon as all needed features are available.
>
> In addition to everything else I mentioned earlier,
> BMimeType::IconForType() should work now as well. Was there anything
> else you needed (I'm tired and it's late, else I'd try it myself
> :-)?
Cool. No, IIRC only GetPreferredApp(), GetIcon() and GetIconForType()
are needed for BNodeInfo. But as BAppFileInfo needs some more methods
and will itself communicate with the registrar, I guess -- not
completely sure yet, still investigating -- it doesn't make that much
sense to add it to the build now anyway. I will come back with this
topic when I actually start implementing BAppFileInfo and something is
missing. But, I suppose, you will be done earlier.
Just to prevent you running out of work: You might also want to think
about what additional MIME database related structures we need to
maintain in the registrar. The quite vague `app meta MIME' comes to my
mind, but I suspect, it will turn out, that this just denotes the sum
of application specific MIME data (supported types, icons for
types,...) only stored in attributes as the other data. Then there is
`__mime_table' which is certainly also held in memory to speed up
BMimeType::GetSupportingTypes(). This map must be kept in sync when
changes to the database are done. I think, this does basically concern
BMimeType::Delete() and BAppFileInfo::SetSupportedTypes() (watch out
the private BMimeType::{Set,Get}SupportedTypes(), that we may or may
not want to implement as well).
CU, Ingo
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