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Protocol suggestion: search metadata

Asked by xxa

I don't know that I am asking this in the right place, but if someone could tell me where to go and post this I'd be happy to do so.

I have lots of ebooks, mostly PDF files. Many of them are scientific papers, and have lengthy titles by nature. It's hard and cumbersome to make the file name that contains everything that describes the article/book. The 'description' field in PDf properties would be a good place to put all of this information. but we could even do better, such as expand the 'keywords' section of description with such things as Date, ISBN, journal reference number, etc. This could be done for other file types as well. Lots of PDFs already have this file metadata in them, so being able to just search that metadata would be great.

Other things I've wanted to do, is search inside an archive or compressed file. I know, it would probably be quite a CPU load to scan through every compressed file for the metadata. Maybe make that optional, for people with lots of CPU power to do the task.

I guess where this suggestion needs to go is wherever the authors of DC software discuss protocol improvements. Where is this? Can someone direct me there?

Mr. X XA

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#1

This is a feature wich has been requested a few times before.
Searches are based now on filename and TTH. Both of them are indexed on the client side. I think extending the new ADC protocol to be able to search metadata would not be a problem but getting search responses is possible only from indexed data so
1. the different kind of metadata should be indexed by the client which is still very time and resource consuming, it would be even worse then
2. it needs a lot of client code which can export the metadata to be indexed from quite a few filetypes

These are my thoughts only I converted your question as bug report marked as 'wishlist' so you can check the authors' responses : https://bugs.launchpad.net/dcplusplus/+bug/211753

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Jacek Sieka (arnetheduck) said : 		#2

Generally, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=dcplusplus-devel although if you have something more concrete, http://adc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page is the place.

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