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NAME

Slackware::Slackget::Search - The slack-get search class

VERSION

Version 1.0.0

SYNOPSIS

A class to search for packages on a Slackware::Slackget::PackageList object. This class is a real search engine (I personnally use it couple with the slack-get daemon, on my website), and it has been designed to be easily tunable.

use Slackware::Slackget::Search;

my $search = Slackware::Slackget::Search->new($packagelist);
my @array = $search->search_package($string); # the simplier, search a matching package name
my @array = $search->search_package_in description($string); # More specialyze, search in the package description
my @array = $search->search_package_multi_fields($string,@fields); # search in each fields for matching $string

All methods return an array of Slackware::Slackget::Package objects.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

The constructor take a Slackware::Slackget::PackageList object as argument.

my $search = Slackware::Slackget::Search->new($packagelist);

FUNCTIONS

search_package

This method take a string as parameter search for packages matching the string, and return an array of Slackware::Slackget::Package

@packages = $packageslist->search_package('gcc');

This method take a string as parameter search for packages where the id is equal to this string. Return the index of the packages in the list.

$idx = $packageslist->exact_search('perl-mime-base64-3.05-noarch-1');

Same as exact_search() but search on the name of the package instead of its id.

$idx = $packageslist->exact_search('perl-mime-base64');

search_package_in_description

Take a string as parameter, and search for this string in the package description

my @array = $search->search_package_in description($string);

search_package_multi_fields

Take a string and a fields list as parameter, and search for this string in the package required fields

my @array = $search->search_package_multi_fields($string,@fields);

TIPS: you can restrict the search domain by providing fields with restrictions, for example :

# For a search only in packages from the Slackware source.
my @results = $search->search_package_multi_fields('burner', 'package-source=slackware', 'description','name');

# For a search only in packages from the Audioslack source, and only i486 packages
my @results = $search->search_package_multi_fields('burner', 'package-source=audioslack', 'architecture=i486', 'description','name');

take a reference on an array of string (requests) as first parameters and a reference to an array which contains the list of fields to search in, and perform a search.

This method return an array of Slackware::Slackget::Package as a result. The array is sort by pertinences.

my @result_array = $search->multi_search(['burn','dvd','cd'],['name','id','description']) ;

You can apply the same tips than for the search_package_multi_fields() method, about the restrictions on search fields.

AUTHOR

DUPUIS Arnaud, <a.dupuis@infinityperl.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-Slackware-Slackget@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Slackware-Slackget. 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 Slackware::Slackget

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Bertrand Dupuis (yes my brother) for his contribution to the documentation.

SEE ALSO

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005 DUPUIS Arnaud, All Rights Reserved.

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