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+<refentry id="ref-sru_z3950">
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <productname>Metaproxy</productname>
+ <info><orgname>Index Data</orgname></info>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>sru_z3950</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3mp</manvolnum>
- <refmiscinfo>Metaproxy Module</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="manual">Metaproxy Module</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>sru_z3950</refname>
- <refpurpose>transforming SRU web service requests to Z3950 metaproxy packages</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Metaproxy Module transforming SRU web service requests to Z3950 Metaproxy packages</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
- The <literal>sru_z3950</literal> metaproxy filter transforms valid
- SRU/GET or SRU/SOAP requests to Z3950 requests, and wraps the
+ The <literal>sru_z3950</literal> Metaproxy filter transforms valid
+ SRU GET/POST/SOAP requests to Z3950 requests, and wraps the
received hit counts and XML records into suitable SRU response messages.
</para>
<para>
- It supports only the SRU <literal>searchRetrieve</literal> operation, which
+ Multiple database elements defining the names of the accepted
+ databases are allowed in the configuration file. Each
+ of them must contain their own explain record, or must be empty.
+ Notice that explain
+ records come in SRU and Z39.50 flavors, and this filter requires
+ the SRU version. See the
+ <ulink url="&url.zeerex.explain;">ZeeReX Explain</ulink>
+ standard pages and the
+ <ulink url="&url.sru.explain;">SRU Explain</ulink> pages
+ for more information.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ All Z39.50 packages and all HTTP packages that do not resolve to
+ one configured database name are passed unaltered to the next
+ filters on the route.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The SRU <literal>explain</literal> operation is supported,
+ returning either the absolute minimum required by the standard, or
+ a full pre-defined ZeeReX explain record.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It supports the SRU <literal>searchRetrieve</literal> operation, which
is transformed into successive Z3950 <literal>init</literal>,
<literal>search</literal> and <literal>present</literal> requests.
</para>
The SRU <literal>scan</literal> operation is not supported.
</para>
<para>
- The SRU <literal>explain</literal> operation is not supported.
- A configuration for a full SRU server needs to prepend the
- <literal>zeerex_explain</literal> filter in front of this
- <literal>sru_z3950</literal> to serve explain requests. This filter
- still needs to be implemented.
- </para>
- <para>
This filter does not handle CQL-to-PQF translations. In case that
- the backends do not understand CQL, you need to prepend the
- <literal>cql_pqf</literal> metaproxy filter. This filter
- still needs to be implemented.
- </para>
+ the backends do not understand CQL, you need to append the
+ <literal>cql_pqf</literal> metaproxy filter.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This module supports the following SRU extra parameters:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>x-target</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies backend Z39.50 target.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>x-max-sockets</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies maximum number of sockets to use for a Z39.50 backend
+ client (for one given target host/db).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1><title>SCHEMA</title>
+ <literallayout><xi:include
+ xi:href="../xml/schema/filter_sru_z3950.rnc"
+ xi:parse="text"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+ </literallayout>
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1><title>EXAMPLES</title>
<para>
A typical configuration looks like this:
<screen><![CDATA[
- <filter type="sru_z3950"/>
+ <filter type="sru_z3950">
+ <database name="Default">
+ <explain xmlns="http://explain.z3950.org/dtd/2.0/">
+ ...
+ </explain>
+ </database>
+ <database name="Dummy">
+ </filter>
+
]]>
</screen>
</para>
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