[TYPO3-dam] [Typo3-dev] DAM Service / Indexing Rule

[Thomas Murphy]

René Fritz wrote:
> No that's not possible. 
> Skipping? Why?

I'm writing a service for metadata extraction from images and xml-files.
One xml file has references to several image-files and contains 
additional meta-data information for the images.
I would like to include a switch for skipping the xml-files because 
parsing them might be much more time-consuming then just indexing the 
image files, which contain all meta-infromation in their filename.
So it would be possible to have a central incoming folder with image and 
xml files, the images are indexed several times a day, while the xml 
files are just done once per night.

At the moment, the directories are still seperated, I think I will have 
to leave it that way to accomplish what I want.
But there might be other reasons for using $this->setup in the service 
itself (e.g. which metadata has to be used? the one from the image or 
from the xml?), but I don't know how this might affect the overall 
architecture of the Services API with coupling and so on.

bye,
Thomas