NAME

Net::Z3950::ScanSet - set of terms received in response to a Z39.50 scan

SYNOPSIS

$ss = $conn->scan('@attr 1=4 fish');
die $conn->errmsg() if !defined $ss;
$size = $ss->size();
for ($i = 0; $i < $size; $i++) {
	$term = $ss->term($i);
	$count = $ss->field($i, "freq");
	$displayTerm = $ss->field($i, "display");
	print "$displayTerm ($count)  [$term]\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

A ScanSet object represents the set of terms found by a Z39.50 scan.

There is no public constructor for this class. ScanSet objects are always created by the Net::Z3950 module itself, and are returned to the caller via the Net::Z3950::Connection class's scan() or scanResult() method.

METHODS

errcode(), addinfo(), errmsg()

if (!defined $ss->term($i)) {
	print "error ", $ss->errcode(), " (", $ss->errmsg(), ")\n";
	print "additional info: ", $ss->addinfo(), "\n";
}

When the term() or <field()> method returns an undefined value, indicating an error, it also sets into the scan-set the BIB-1 error code and additional information returned by the server. They can be retrieved via the errcode() and addinfo() methods.

As a convenience, $ss-errmsg()> is equivalent to Net::Z3950::errstr($ss-errcode())>.

AUTHOR

Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>

First version Friday 7th May 2004.