Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Luca Beltrame
On domenica 4 gennaio 2009 18:46:05 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > ... automatically, of course. the DataEngine author need write no code for > this. if you wish to do further cacheing, you can work around this feature, > but it's generally not the common case. Actually, it's good like this. And I can a

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 04 January 2009, Alex Merry wrote: > Generally useful engines will probably be included in kdebase, or maybe > kdeplasma-addons. For example, I could see that an email monitoring engine > and an address book engine (based on Akonadi) would probably merit yes; there's already one in kdep

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 04 January 2009, David Baron wrote: > Are there stock data-engines that come with the distributions, things for > KDEPIM or even MySQL or pogreSQL? Or need on always roll one's own? there are several that come with kdebase/workspace, and a couple more in kdeplasma-addons. we're always l

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Alex Merry
On Sunday 04 January 2009 19:04:38 David Baron wrote: > While this is being discussed at length . . . > > Are there stock data-engines that come with the distributions, things for > KDEPIM or even MySQL or pogreSQL? Or need on always roll one's own? *looks in kdebase/workspace/plasma/dataengines*

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread David Baron
While this is being discussed at length . . . Are there stock data-engines that come with the distributions, things for KDEPIM or even MySQL or pogreSQL? Or need on always roll one's own? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.k

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 04 January 2009, Alex Merry wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:29:11 Luca Beltrame wrote: > > On domenica 4 gennaio 2009 12:03:21 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > - User puts in the term "foo" as in search term; > > - The term "foo" is used as source in the DataEngine, which then fetches > >

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Alex Merry
On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:29:11 Luca Beltrame wrote: > On domenica 4 gennaio 2009 12:03:21 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > - User puts in the term "foo" as in search term; > - The term "foo" is used as source in the DataEngine, which then fetches > the information; > - Said information is then presented

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Luca Beltrame
On domenica 4 gennaio 2009 12:03:21 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > well, sources are created on demand, though. there are a few million > twitter users; we don't load everyone's account in the TwitterEngine ;) Well, I think I'm finally getting the grasp of it. I was misled by the term "source"... techn

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 04 January 2009, Luca Beltrame wrote: > On domenica 4 gennaio 2009 10:20:32 Chani wrote: > > perhaps what you want is a Service, not a Source. my memory of such > > I'll turn the question to everyone in the list: is Service exposed through > the Python API? it should be; however, there i

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Luca Beltrame
On domenica 4 gennaio 2009 10:20:32 Chani wrote: > perhaps what you want is a Service, not a Source. my memory of such I'll turn the question to everyone in the list: is Service exposed through the Python API? I can't check myself at the moment because with the new snapshots from trunk I'm usin

Re: More DataEngines questions

2009-01-04 Thread Chani
> > Let's make an example to make things clearer. A user may want to search for > the term "foo", and another for the term "bar", and of course, they would > get different results. How can I make the DataEngine aware that the query > parameter should be "foo" in one case, and "bar" in the other

More DataEngines questions

2008-12-30 Thread Luca Beltrame
Hello, I've been hacking a bit and, using the pytime DataEngine as an example, successfully built a "dummy" Python DataEngine that fetches records from NCBI on a hard-coded query and sets data correctly. I admit it was surprisingly easy to set up. Although my knowledge of C++ is zero, I have b