talend-spatial / workspace-metadata-crawler

Automatic geospatial data inventory with Talend Spatial
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file uuid generation strategy and metadata record title #10

Closed sppigot closed 10 years ago

sppigot commented 10 years ago

Currently uuid of file is generated from sha of filename. Would be nice if sha included date of modification as well (since some files will have the same name). Currently title is filename, but directory path often includes useful metadata - so directory path (minus context data_dir) would be better to use as title of metadata record.

Ultimately it might be better to have the crawler running as a thread which monitors the context data_dir using java7 watchdir and:

sppigot commented 10 years ago

Sorry - there was an issue already opened on this!