Please bring CoreSpotlight to OS X

Originator:robotspacer
Number:rdar://21430940 Date Originated:17-Jun-2015 06:44 PM
Status:Closed Resolved:07-Jun-2017
Product:OS X SDK Product Version:10.11 (15A178w)
Classification:Enhancement Reproducible:N/A
 
Summary:
For the past year or so I've been hoping we'd eventually see a new extension-based Spotlight API that's shared between iOS and OS X. CoreSpotlight in iOS 9 is exactly what I was hoping for… but really I'd like to see it on the Mac too.

Of course, there are already Spotlight APIs on OS X, but when it comes to indexing data that's not normally stored in external files, they are overcomplicated and buggy. My apps use Core Data and they're sandboxed—neither of which is unusual. Indexing apps like these has always been challenging, was completely broken for all of Mavericks ( see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21392278/record-level-spotlight-indexing-with-coredata ), and even now I'm struggling to get it working right. Even if it all worked perfectly, CoreSpotlight seems like a much more straightforward, modern, and flexible approach.

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Actual Results:
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Version:
10.11 (15A178w)

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Configuration:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB

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macOS 10.13 includes Core Spotlight

By robotspacer at June 7, 2017, 7:35 p.m. (reply...)

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