[interfacekit] Re: MimeDatabase

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Ingo Weinhold wrote:

> 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).

And a list (or BMessage?) with all installed types to speed up
BMimeType::GetInstalledTypes() would be a good thing, too.

CU, Ingo

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