[Sugar-devel] exporting metadata from the journal

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-3 at silbe.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Sameer Verma's message of Wed Sep 29 20:39:05 +0200 2010:
>
>> Is there a documented way (or a script) to process all available
>> metadata from the Journal? I am looking for timestamps, type of data
>> stored, collaborated with, etc. and not the actual content of the
>> activity.
>
> Depends on your definition of "documented way" and "process all available
> metadata". ;)
>
> sugar.datastore.datastore.find({}) will return DSObject instances for
> all entries in the data store (unless you have enough entries to hit
> the DBus timeout [1]). Full metadata is available as ds_object.metadata
> (or ds_object.metadata.get_dictionary() if the interface of DSMetadata
> isn't dict-like enough for your use).
>
> See the Backup [2] activity for how to access the data store directly
> via DBus and handling different versions (0.82 - 0.90).
>
> Sascha
>
> [1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1936
> [2] http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/backup/repos/mainline/trees/master
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Thanks, Sascha. I'll start looking into backup.py

cheers,
Sameer
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