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NAME

Search::OpenSearch::Federated - aggregate OpenSearch results

SYNOPSIS

my $ms = Search::OpenSearch::Federated->new(
   urls    => [
       'http://some-site.org/search?q=foo',
       'http://some-other-site.org/search?q=foo',
   ],
   timeout => 10,  # very generous
);

my $results = $ms->search();
for my $r (@$results) {
    printf("title=%s", $r->title);
    printf("uri=%s",   $r->uri);
    print "\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

Search::OpenSearch::Federated is for aggregating multiple OpenSearch responses into a single result set. Use it as a client for Search::OpenSearch::Engine-powered servers or for any server that provides OpenSearch-style results.

METHODS

Search::OpenSearch::Federated isa Search::Tools::Object.

new( args )

Constructor. args should include key urls with value of an array reference. Supported args keys are:

urls arrayref
timeout n
fields arrayref
debug 0|1
normalize_scores 0|1

If true, all result scores are run through the Normalize module to (hopefully) help create parity amongst the result sets.

version

Defaults to $VERSION package var.

Execute the search. Returns array ref of results sorted by score.

fields

Returns fields set in new().

total

Return total hits.

subtotals

Returns hash ref of subtotal for each URL, keys being the values of urls().

facets

Returns hash ref of aggregated facets for all URLs.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2013 - American Public Media Group

AUTHOR

Peter Karman, <karman at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-search-opensearch-federated at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Search-OpenSearch-Federated. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Search::OpenSearch::Federated

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to American Public Media and the state of Minnesota for sponsoring the development of this module.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.