##
##
-## $Id: SimpleServer.pm,v 1.38 2007-08-20 10:55:29 mike Exp $
+## $Id: SimpleServer.pm,v 1.46 2007-09-25 09:02:14 mike Exp $
package Net::Z3950::SimpleServer;
@ISA = qw(Exporter AutoLoader DynaLoader);
@EXPORT = qw( );
-$VERSION = '1.07';
+$VERSION = '1.10';
bootstrap Net::Z3950::SimpleServer $VERSION;
if (defined($self->{EXPLAIN})) {
set_explain_handler($self->{EXPLAIN});
}
+ if (defined($self->{DELETE})) {
+ set_delete_handler($self->{DELETE});
+ }
start_server(@args);
}
my $res = "";
foreach my $attr (@{ $this->{attributes} }) {
- use Data::Dumper; print "considering attr: ", Dumper($attr);
$res .= "\@attr ";
my $set = $attr->{attributeSet};
$res .= "$set " if defined $set;
PRESENT => \&my_present_handler,
SCAN => \&my_scan_handler,
FETCH => \&my_fetch_handler,
- EXPLAIN => \&my_explain_handler);
+ EXPLAIN => \&my_explain_handler,
+ DELETE => \&my_delete_handler,
+ SORT => \&my_sort_handler);
In addition, the arguments to the constructor may include GHANDLE, a
global handle which is made available to each invocation of every
$args = {
## Response parameters:
+ PEER_NAME => "", ## Name or IP address of connecting client
IMP_ID => "", ## Z39.50 Implementation ID
IMP_NAME => "", ## Z39.50 Implementation name
IMP_VER => "", ## Z39.50 Implementation version
=back
-All of these classes are subclasses of the abstrac class
-C<Net::Z3950::RPN::Node>. That class has a single method, C<toPQF()>,
-which may be used to turn an RPN tree, or part of one, back into a
-textual prefix query.
-
=back
=over 4
=back
+All of these classes except C<Attributes> and C<Attribute> are
+subclasses of the abstract class C<Net::Z3950::RPN::Node>. That class
+has a single method, C<toPQF()>, which may be used to turn an RPN
+tree, or part of one, back into a textual prefix query.
+
Note that, apart to C<toPQF()>, none of these classes have any methods at
all: the blessing into classes is largely just a documentation thing
so that, for example, if you do
after this call. If you need to close down a connection to your server
or something similar, this is the place to do it.
+=head2 Delete handler
+
+The argument hash recieved by the delete handler has the following elements:
+
+ $args = {
+ ## Client request:
+ GHANDLE => $obj, ## Global handler specified at creation
+ HANDLE => ref, ## Reference to data structure
+ SETNAME => "id", ## Result set ID
+
+ ## Server response:
+ STATUS => 0 ## Deletion status
+ };
+
+The SETNAME element of the argument hash may or may not be defined.
+If it is, then SETNAME is the name of a result set to be deleted; if
+not, then all result-sets associated with the current session should
+be deleted. In either case, the callback function should report on
+success or failure by setting the STATUS element either to zero, on
+success, or to an integer from 1 to 10, to indicate one of the ten
+possible failure codes described in section 3.2.4.1.4 of the Z39.50
+standard -- see
+http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/markup/05.html#Delete-list-statuses1
+
+=head2 Sort handler
+
+The argument hash recieved by the sort handler has the following elements:
+
+ $args = {
+ ## Client request:
+ GHANDLE => $obj, ## Global handler specified at creation
+ HANDLE => ref, ## Reference to data structure
+ INPUT => [ a, b ... ], ## Names of result-sets to sort
+ OUTPUT => "name", ## Name of result-set to sort into
+ SEQUENCE ## Sort specification: see below
+
+ ## Server response:
+ STATUS => 0, ## Success, Partial or Failure
+ ERR_CODE => 0, ## Error code
+ ERR_STR => '', ## Diagnostic message
+
+ };
+
+The SEQUENCE element is a reference to an array, each element of which
+is a hash representing a sort key. Each hash contains the following
+elements:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item RELATION
+
+0 for an ascending sort, 1 for descending, 3 for ascending by
+frequency, or 4 for descending by frequency.
+
+=item CASE
+
+0 for a case-sensitive sort, 1 for case-insensitive
+
+=item MISSING
+
+How to respond if one or more records in the set to be sorted are
+missing the fields indicated in the sort specification. 1 to abort
+the sort, 2 to use a "null value", 3 if a value is provided to use in
+place of the missing data (although in the latter case, the actual
+value to use is currently not made available, so this is useless).
+
+=back
+
+And one or other of the following:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SORTFIELD
+
+A string indicating the field to be sorted, which the server may
+interpret as it sees fit (presumably by an out-of-band agreement with
+the client).
+
+=item ELEMENTSPEC_TYPE and ELEMENTSPEC_VALUE
+
+I have no idea what this is.
+
+=item ATTRSET and SORT_ATTR
+
+ATTRSET is the attribute set from which the attributes are taken, and
+SORT_ATTR is a reference to an array containing the attributes
+themselves. Each attribute is represented by (are you following this
+carefully?) yet another hash, this one containing the elements
+ATTR_TYPE and ATTR_VALUE: for example, type=1 and value=4 in the BIB-1
+attribute set would indicate access-point 4 which is title, so that a
+sort of title is requested.
+
+=back
+
+Precisely why all of the above is so is not clear, but goes some way
+to explain why, in the Z39.50 world, the developers of the standard
+are not so much worshipped as blamed.
+
+The backend function should set STATUS to 0 on success, 1 for "partial
+success" (don't ask) or 2 on failure, in which case ERR_CODE and
+ERR_STR should be set.
+
=head2 Support for SRU and SRW
Since release 1.0, SimpleServer includes support for serving the SRU
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