X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FZOOM.pod;h=20fb9a1d2e4b07d7dc614dc418511d62631ed3d3;hb=150f46f520c95d48bc52eacae074639b1718a8fc;hp=908bba5148e5a1c075b2f32a590966e195d5a6b8;hpb=7bf889db4a2c15b79d5ac332c09d304ace400111;p=ZOOM-Perl-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/lib/ZOOM.pod b/lib/ZOOM.pod index 908bba5..20fb9a1 100644 --- a/lib/ZOOM.pod +++ b/lib/ZOOM.pod @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -# $Id: ZOOM.pod,v 1.32 2006-04-11 16:38:38 mike Exp $ - use strict; use warnings; @@ -39,8 +37,8 @@ API such as ZOOM is that all implementations should be compatible anyway; but knowing that the same code is running is reassuring.) The ZOOM module provides two enumerations (C and -C), two utility functions C and C in -the C package itself, and eight classes: +C), three utility functions C, C +and C in the C package itself, and eight classes: C, C, C, @@ -50,12 +48,13 @@ C, C and C. -Of these, the Query class is abstract, and has three concrete +Of these, the Query class is abstract, and has four concrete subclasses: C, -C +C, +C and -C. +C. Finally, it also provides a C module which supplies a useful general-purpose logging facility. @@ -97,6 +96,21 @@ C, irrespective of whether it is a member of the C enumeration or drawn from the BIB-1 diagnostic set. +=head2 ZOOM::diag_srw_str() + + $msg = ZOOM::diag_srw_str(18); + +Returns a human-readable English-language string corresponding to the +specified SRW error code. + +=head2 ZOOM::event_str() + + $msg = ZOOM::event_str(ZOOM::Event::RECV_APDU); + +Returns a human-readable English-language string corresponding to the +event code that is its own parameter. This works for any value of the +C enumeration. + =head2 ZOOM::event() $connsRef = [ $conn1, $conn2, $conn3 ]; @@ -181,6 +195,8 @@ connected to the server. This is a convenient way to set options, including those that must be set before connecting such as authentication tokens. +The server-name string is of the form: + =over 4 =item @@ -214,11 +230,30 @@ local filesystem. =item http -SRW connection using SOAP over HTTP. +SRU connection over HTTP. =back -Support for SRU will follow in the fullness of time. +If the C scheme is used, the particular SRU flavour to be used +may be specified by the C option, which takes the following +values: + +=over 4 + +=item soap + +SRU over SOAP (i.e. what used to be called SRW). +This is the default. + +=item get + +"SRU Classic" (i.e. SRU over HTTP GET). + +=item post + +SRU over HTTP POST. + +=back If an error occurs, an exception is thrown. This may indicate a networking problem (e.g. the host is not found or unreachable), or a @@ -229,21 +264,28 @@ request). $options = new ZOOM::Options(); $options->option(implementationName => "my client"); + $options->option(implementationId => 12345); $conn = create ZOOM::Connection($options) + # or + $conn = create ZOOM::Connection(implementationName => "my client", + implementationId => 12345); + $conn->connect($host, 0); The usual Connection constructor, C brings a new object into existence and forges the connection to the server all in one operation, which is often what you want. For applications that need -more control, however, these two method separate the two steps, +more control, however, these two methods separate the two steps, allowing additional steps in between such as the setting of options. C creates and returns a new Connection object, which is I connected to any server. It may be passed an options block, of type C (see below), into which options may be set -before or after the creation of the Connection. The connection to the -server may then be forged by the C method, the arguments of -which are the same as those of the C constructor. +before or after the creation of the Connection. Alternatively and +equivalently, C may be passed a list of key-value option +pairs directly. The connection to the server may then be forged by +the C method, which accepts hostname and port arguments +like those of the C constructor. =head4 error_x() / errcode() / errmsg() / addinfo() / diagset() @@ -268,6 +310,24 @@ returns all four at once. See the C for the interpretation of these elements. +=head4 exception() + + die $conn->exception(); + +C returns the same information as C in the +form of a C object which may be thrown or rendered. +If no error occurred on the connection, then C returns an +undefined value. + +=head4 check() + + $conn->check(); + +Checks whether an error is pending on the connection, and throw a +C object if so. Since errors are thrown as they +occur for synchronous connections, there is no need ever to call this +except in asynchronous applications. + =head4 option() / option_binary() print("server is '", $conn->option("serverImplementationName"), "'\n"); @@ -483,7 +543,7 @@ Returns the number of records in the result set. The C method returns a C object representing a record from result-set, whose position is indicated by the argument passed in. This is a zero-based index, so that legitimate values -range from zero to C<$rs->size()-1>. +range from zero to C<$rs-Esize()-1>. The C API is identical, but it never invokes a network operation, merely returning the record from the ResultSet's @@ -509,7 +569,7 @@ wants to display a whole list of results. Conversely, the software's strategy might be always to ask for blocks of a twenty records: that's great for assembling long lists of things, but wasteful when only one record is wanted. The problem is that the ZOOM module can't -tell, when you call C<$rs->record()>, what your intention is. +tell, when you call C<$rs-Erecord()>, what your intention is. But you can tell it. The C method fetches a sequence of records, all in one go. It takes three arguments: the first is the @@ -599,6 +659,34 @@ http://zoom.z3950.org/api/zoom-current.html#3.5 =head3 Methods +=head4 error() / exception() + + if ($rec->error()) { + my($code, $msg, $addinfo, $dset) = $rec->error(); + print "error $code, $msg ($addinfo) from $dset set\n"; + die $rec->exception(); + } + +These functions test for surrogate diagnostics associated with a +record: that is, errors pertaining to a particular record rather than +to the fetch-some-records operation as a whole. (The latter are known +in Z39.50 as non-surrogate diagnostics, and are reported as exceptions +thrown by searches.) If a particular record can't be obtained - for +example, because it is not available in the requested record syntax - +then the record object obtained from the result-set, when interrogated +with these functions, will report the error. + +C returns the error-code, a human-readable message, +additional information and the name of the diagnostic set that the +error is from. When called in a scalar context, it just returns the +error-code. Since error 0 means "no error", it can be used as a +boolean has-there-been-an-error indicator. + +C returns the same information in the form of a +C object which may be thrown or rendered. If no +error occurred on the record, then C returns an undefined +value. + =head4 render() print $rec->render(); @@ -1012,6 +1100,21 @@ relations and modifiers into Type-1 query attributes. An example CQL configuration file is included in the ZOOM-Perl distribution, in the file C +=item ZOOM::Query::CCL2RPN + +Implements CCL by compiling it on the client-side into a Z39.50 Type-1 +(RPN) query, and sending that. Because the compilation is done on the +client side, a configuration file is required to direct the mapping of +CCL constructs such as index names and boolean operators into Type-1 +query attributes. An example CCL configuration file is included in +the ZOOM-Perl distribution, in the file C + +CCL is syntactically very similar to CQL, but much looser. While CQL +is an entirely precise language in which each possible query has +rigorously defined semantics, and is thus suitable for transfer as +part of a protocol, CCL is best deployed as a human-facing UI +language. + =back See the description of the C class in the ZOOM Abstract @@ -1042,6 +1145,17 @@ if compilation fails, then diagnostic information is cached in the Connection and be retrieved using C<$conn-Eerrcode()> and related methods. + $conn->option(cclfile => "samples/ccl/default.bib"); + # or + $conn->option(cclqual => "ti u=4 s=pw\nab u=62 s=pw"); + $q = new ZOOM::Query::CCL2RPN('ti=dinosaur', $conn); + +For the C subclass, too, the Connection must be +passed into the constructor, for the same reasons as when client-side +CQL compilation is used. The C option, if defined, gives a +CCL qualification specification inline; otherwise, the contents of the +file named by the C option are used. + =head4 sortby() $q->sortby("1=4 >i 1=21 >s"); @@ -1212,12 +1326,16 @@ C, C, C, C, -C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, +C, +C, +C, C, C, C, @@ -1377,12 +1495,12 @@ The approach is as follows: Create several connections to the various servers, each of them having the option C set, and with whatever additional options are -required - e.g. setting the piggyback retrieval record-count so that -records will be returned in search responses. +required - e.g. the piggyback retrieval record-count can be set so +that records will be returned in search responses. =item Operations -Send searches to the connections, request record retrieval, etc. +Send searches to the connections, request records, etc. =item Event harvesting @@ -1391,21 +1509,22 @@ received from the servers. Each time this function returns, it indicates which of the connections has fired; this connection can then be interrogated with the C method to discover what event has occurred, and the return value - an element of the C -enumeration can be used to determine what to do next. For example, -the C operation indicates that no further operations are +enumeration - can be tested to determine what to do next. For +example, the C event indicates that no further operations are outstanding on the connection, so any fetched records can now be immediately obtained. =back Here is a very short program (omitting all error-checking!) which -demonstrates this process. It parallel-searches two servers (or more +demonstrates this process. It parallel-searches three servers (or more of you add them the list), displaying the first record in the result-set of each server as soon as it becomes available. use ZOOM; @servers = ('z3950.loc.gov:7090/Voyager', - 'bagel.indexdata.com:210/gils'); + 'z3950.indexdata.com:210/gils', + 'agricola.nal.usda.gov:7190/Voyager'); for ($i = 0; $i < @servers; $i++) { $z[$i] = new ZOOM::Connection($servers[$i], 0, async => 1, # asynchronous mode @@ -1447,7 +1566,7 @@ Mike Taylor, Emike@indexdata.comE =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE -Copyright (C) 2005 by Index Data. +Copyright (C) 2005-2014 by Index Data. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or,