NAME

Search::OpenSearch::Engine - abstract base class

SYNOPSIS

use Search::OpenSearch::Engine;
my $engine = Search::OpenSearch::Engine->new(
   index   => [qw( path/to/index1 path/to/index2 )],
   facets  => {
       names       => [qw( color size flavor )],
       sample_size => 10_000,
   },
   fields  => [qw( color size flavor )],
);
my $response = $engine->search(
   q           => 'quick brown fox',   # query
   s           => 'rank desc',         # sort order
   o           => 0,                   # offset
   p           => 25,                  # page size
   h           => 1,                   # highlight query terms in results
   c           => 0,                   # return count stats only (no results)
   L           => 'field|low|high',    # limit results to inclusive range
   f           => 1,                   # include facets
   r           => 1,                   # include results
   format      => 'XML',               # or JSON
   link        => 'http://yourdomain.foo/opensearch/',
   b           => 'AND',               # or OR
);
print $response;

DESCRIPTION

Search::OpenSearch::Engine is an abstract base class. It defines some sane method behavior based on the SWISH::Prog::Searcher API.

METHODS

This class is a subclass of Rose::ObjectX::CAF. Only new or overridden methods are documented here.

init

Sets up the new object.

init_searcher

Subclasses must implement this method. If the Searcher object acts like a SWISH::Prog::Searcher, then search() will Just Work. Otherwise, your Engine subclass should likely override search() as well.

search( args )

See the SYNOPSIS.

Returns a Search::OpenSearch::Response object based on the format specified in args.

set_limit( args )

Called internally by search(). The args will be three key/value pairs, with keys "field," "low", and "high".

facets

Get/set a Search::OpenSearch::Facets object.

index

Get/set the location of the inverted indexes to be searched. The value is intented to be used in init_searcher().

searcher

The value returned by init_searcher().

fields

Get/set the arrayref of field names to be fetched for each search result.

type

Should return a unique identifier for your Engine subclass. Default is to croak().

The base URI for Responses. Passed to Response->link.

get_facets( query, results )

Checks the cache for facets related to query and, if found, returns them. If not found, calls build_facets(), which must be implemented by each Engine subclass.

build_facets( query, results )

Default will croak. Engine subclasses must implement this method to provide Facet support.

build_results( results )

results should be an iterator like SWISH::Prog::Results.

Returns an array ref of hash refs, each corresponding to a single search result.

process_result( hash_of_args )

Called by build_results for each result object. hash_of_args is a list of key/value pairs that includes:

result

The values returned from results->next.

hiliter

A Search::Tools::HiLiter object.

snipper

A Search::Tools::Snipper object.

XMLer

A Search::Tools::XML object.

fields

Array ref of fields defined in the new() constructor.

Returns a hash ref, where each key is a field name.

cache

Get/set the internal CHI object. Defaults to the File driver.

cache_ttl

Get/set the cache key time-to-live. Default is 1 hour.

do_not_hilite

Get/set the hash ref of field names that should not be hilited in a Response.

snipper_config

Get/set the hash ref of Search::Tools::Snipper->new params.

hiliter_config

Get/set the hash ref of Search::Tools::HiLiter->new params.

parser_config

Get/set the hash ref of Search::Tools::QueryParser->new params.

no_hiliting( field_name )

By default, looks up field_name in the do_no_hilite() hash, but you can override this method to implement whatever logic you want.

AUTHOR

Peter Karman, <karman at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-search-opensearch at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Search-OpenSearch. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Search::OpenSearch

You can also look for information at:

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Peter Karman.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.