Small updates to the documentation

[simpleserver-moved-to-github.git] / SimpleServer.pm

diff --git a/SimpleServer.pm b/SimpleServer.pm
index 9dcfe5e..be1017c 100644 (file)
--- a/SimpleServer.pm
+++ b/SimpleServer.pm
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ Net::Z3950::SimpleServer - Simple Perl API for building Z39.50 servers.
        my $record = fetch_a_record($args->{OFFSET);
 
        $args->{RECORD} = $record;
-       $args->{LEN} = length($record);
        if (number_of_hits() == $args->{OFFSET}) {      ## Last record in set?
                $args->{LAST} = 1;
        } else {
@@ -313,7 +312,7 @@ The parameters exchanged between the server and the fetch handler are
             HANDLE    =>  ref      ## Reference to data structure
             SETNAME   =>  "id"     ## ID of the requested result set
             OFFSET    =>  nnn      ## Record offset number
-            REQ_FORM  =>  "USMARC" ## Client requested record format
+            REQ_FORM  =>  "n.m.k.l"## Client requested format OID
             COMP      =>  "xyz"    ## Formatting instructions
 
                                    ## Handler response:
@@ -324,7 +323,7 @@ The parameters exchanged between the server and the fetch handler are
             ERR_CODE  =>  0        ## Error code
             ERR_STR   =>  ""       ## Error string
             SUR_FLAG  =>  0        ## Surrogate diagnostic flag
-            REP_FORM  =>  "USMARC" ## Provided record format
+            REP_FORM  =>  "n.m.k.l"## Provided format OID
          };
 
 The REP_FORM value has by default the REQ_FORM value but can be set to
@@ -336,12 +335,9 @@ indicate whether the error condition pertains to the record currently
 being retrieved, or whether it pertains to the operation as a whole
 (eg. the client has specified a result set which does not exist.)
 
-Record formats are currently carried as strings (eg. USMARC, TEXT_XML,
-SUTRS), but this will probably change to proper OID strings in the
-future (not to worry, though, the module will supply constant values
-for the common OIDs). If you need to return USMARC records, you might
-want to have a look at the MARC module on CPAN, if you don't already
-have a way of generating these.
+If you need to return USMARC records, you might want to have a look at
+the MARC module on CPAN, if you don't already have a way of generating
+these.
 
 NOTE: The record offset is 1-indexed - 1 is the offset of the first
 record in the set.