It’s (almost) alive!

Is no news really good news? :-)

Well, I’ve got some code up and running. It doesn’t install anywhere yet, but does talk Xesam in it’s own limited and special way. The parser is possibly not too efficient, and definitely has trouble parsing more complex queries (ones with multiple or data elements). You can find the code is in the Gnome subversion repository.

There’s a list of outstanding issues in the top-level directory. For example, a major concern is that there isn’t much of a grouping mechanism in Beagle for queries with lots of ANDs and ORs (something like “(a and b) or c” is not possible right now).

In the initial implementation I left a lot of the smaller details hanging, I’m going about addressing these now. The set of supported metadata fields needs to be finalised before I can touch upon the set of fields returned and sorting order. The parser is also could do with some touching up (I’ve kept it as simple as possible now).

All this should push the adaptor closer to completeness.