"On Mac OS X v10.6 and later, for non-document-based programs, you can create Spotlight indexes where each record is indexed individually." [1] I interpret this to mean that users can get results for my app's records in their Spotlight searches, the way they get Safari bookmarks and Address Book contacts.
Before I get in too deep, I was hoping someone could advise on potential trouble areas: 1. My app is document-based, although in the use-case for which this feature, the user has only one document. I'd like it to index that one. I presume that by "non-document-based programs", Apple is actually referring to the store -- in other words, if I provide in my document-based app a non-document-based store, Spotlight can index the records in that store. So I'll copy objects from the user's selected document into the new non-document-based store. Should it work? Does anyone have a more elegant suggestion? 2. "Although you can use your custom managed object classes in the importer, the Core Data External Record daemon ... can’t use custom managed object classes." All of my managed objects are *subclasses* of NSManagedObject. Is that what they mean by "custom managed object classes"? If so, then the Core Data External Record daemon won't be working for me, but it's "optional" and only to "improve performance". On the other hand, my objects have several dozen properties, only a few of which will be indexed. So if I need to implement another non-document store anyhow, maybe I should copy my objects to simple NSManagedObjects, copying only the few properties which I want indexed by Spotlight or are necessary to act upon a hit. 3. Project currently uses Mac OS 10.5 SDK. If I still want to support 10.5, I need to bite the bullet, read the Cross-Development Programming Guide and configure the project for cross-development, but in the end, Record-Level Indexing should work for my 10.6 users. 10.5 users simply won't get any of my results in their Spotlight searches. Any known gotchas in there? 4. Can't find any sample code. It would be nice to see that Record-Level Indexing has been done? Thank you, Jerry Krinock [1] Core Data Spotlight Integration Programming Guide ▸ Record-Level Indexing_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
