NAME

DDC::Client::Distributed - DDC Query utilities: client for distributed server

SYNOPSIS

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## PRELIMINARIES

use DDC::Client;
use DDC::Client::Distributed;

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## Constructors etc

$dc = $CLASS_OR_OBJ->new(%args);

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## Querying

$buf  = $dc->queryRaw($query_string);
$hits = $dc->query($query_string);

## ... or any DDC::Client method ...

DESCRIPTION

Globals

Variable: @ISA

DDC::Client::Distributed inherits from DDC::Client.

Constructors etc

new

$dc = $CLASS_OR_OBJ->new(%args);

%args:

(
 start=>$hit_start_index,     ##-- default=0,
 limit=>$hit_limit_index,     ##-- default=10,
 timeout=>$hit_timeout_index, ##-- default=60
 connect=>\%connectArgs,      ##-- see DDC::Client->new(), IO::Socket::INET->new()
)

Querying

query

$buf = $dc->queryRaw($query_string);

Send a query string to the selected server and returns the raw result buffer.

query

$hits = $dc->query($query_string);

Send a query string to the selected server and parses the result into a list of hits.

AUTHOR

Bryan Jurish <moocow@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Bryan Jurish

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.