[Psi-devel] Google Desktop Search Plugin for PSI - in development

[Ognen Ivanovski]

Hello Everyone, this is my first post here so bare with me.. :)

I already contacted Hal and volunteered to implement the GDS plugin for 
Psi.

I already studied the GDS SDK and I can freely say that the development 
of GDS plugin is completely independent of the Psi chat history storage 
/ search.

The way it works is the (roughly) following:

- GDS offers couple of COM interfaces and few schemas (file types) it 
can index.

- you send events to GDS of certain schema (media type) to google either
	- when the crawler encounters a file type you've registered for (which 
is not interesting for us)
	- when you want to notify GDS about new content that is not stored as a 
file (this is where we plug in)

- there is a event schema for instant messages.

- what PSI needs to do is:
	- register with GDS either on installation or after (e.g. when GDS is 
installed after psi is installed_
	- send events about the the messages already in history (if GDS 
isntalled after psi isntalled)
	
	- when a message is received or sent, notify GDS. This is done via COM 
and is quite simple.

- GDS caches the events it receives (you also send the content in text 
format, possibly with HTML markup) so searches and result display are 
completely independant of Psi.

- the event schema fo IM among other properties accepts a 'conversation 
id' so I assume GDS will display chats nicely

I will try to add this functionality to Psi and send the patch to 
someone by end of next week.

If I have time I will study spothlight too and see if a common interface 
can be derived for both.

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