[Xapian-discuss] Where is the get_docid method for perl?

[Jim]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:26:12PM -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> I tried the following:
>>    my $mset = $enq->get_mset(0, 10);
>>    print "Size ". $mset->size()."\n";
>>    my %hits;
>>    for(my $mit=$mset->begin(); $mit != $mset->end();$mit++) {
>>        my %hit;
>>        my $doc = $mit->get_document();
>>        my $id = $doc->get_docid();
>>     
>
> That should be:
>
>          my $id = $mit->get_docid();
>
> Is this code taken from an example or documentation?  If so, let me know where
> and I'll fix it.
>   
No, I think it was my attempt to read the C++ API and apply it to the 
perl module since I didn't find any mset* perldocs.  I must have been 
confused as to what object I was reading about at the time.

Thanks again.
>   
>>        my $data=$doc->get_data();
>> ...
>>    }
>>     
>
>   
>> I see in the example on perldoc for Search/Xapian that there is a method 
>> of the Enquire class named "matches" and it returns a pointer to an 
>> unnamed class that includes the  get_docid, but there isn't any 
>> documentation for it in the API.  Am I missing some documentation somewhere?
>>     
>
> It's not unnamed - "perldoc Search::Xapian::Enquire" says:
>
>        matches <start> <size>
>            Takes the start element, and maximum number of elements, and
>            returns an array tied to Search::Xapian::MSet::Tied.
>   
After I wrote it I found that there were other perldocs than 
Search::Xapian.  I hadn't realized that initially.  It was pretty 
frustrating trying to make sense using just that perldoc and the C++ 
API.  ;)  Perhaps a see also in the perldoc to point out some of at 
least the more interesting documents, like Search::Xapian::Enquire
and Search::Xapian::QueryParser and Search::Xapian::Database.
> Search::Xapian::MSet::Tied doesn't appear to be documented, and I don't
> know much about it (Alex wrote it I think) but looking at the code, its FETCH
> method just returns a Search::Xapian::MSetIterator object for that offset in
> the results.
>
>   
>> I searched the wiki for "perl" and got no hits.  I searched the xapian 
>> web site and it told me it couldn't find the default database.
>>     
>
> There was an out-of-date path in xapian.org's omega.conf in CVS which I fixed
> by hand after the 1.0.2 release without realising that file was version
> controlled, so my fix was overwritten by the 1.0.3 upload.  Now fixed properly
> - thanks for reporting this.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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