NAME

Search::Xapian - Perl XS frontend to the Xapian C++ search library.

SYNOPSIS

use Search::Xapian;

my $settings = Search::Xapian::Settings->new();

$settings->set( 'backend', 'auto' );
$settings->set( 'auto_dir', '[DATABASE DIR]' );

my $db = Search::Xapian::Database->new( $settings );
my $enq = Search::Xapian::Enquire->new( $db );
my $query = Search::Xapian::Query->new( '[QUERY TERM]' );

printf "Parsing query '%s'\n", $query->get_description();

$enq->set_query( $query );

my $matches = $enq->get_mset( 0, 10 );

printf "%d results found\n", $matches->get_estimated();

my $match = $matches->begin();
my $size = $matches->size();

while( $size-- ){
  printf "ID %d %d%% [ %s ]\n", $match->get_docid(), $match->get_percent(), $match->get_document()->get_data();
  $match->inc();
}

DESCRIPTION

Currently this module only provides objects required for searching, not indexing. Expect this to change in the near future.

More detailed documentation on xapian can be found at http://www.xapian.org/

EXPORT

None by default.

TODO

Error Handling

Error handling for all method liable to generate them.

Documentation

Brief descriptions of classes, possibly just adapted for xapian docs.

Search::Xapian::Simple

To provide a simplified, more 'Perlish' interface.

AUTHOR

Alex Bowley <kilinrax@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

perl. xapian.