simple search api (was Re: mimetype standardisation by testsets)

[Joe Shaw]

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 20:39 +0100, Jos van den Oever wrote:
> I'm fine with an additional query function. I avoided this in the
> first place because the return message would become rather big. How
> about:
> 
>   method queryDetailed ( in s query, in i offset, in i limit , out
> a(sa(sas)) hits )
>   Perform a query and return a list of URIs that match the query.
>   Input:
>   query
>      The query being performed.
>   offset
>      The offset in the result list for the first returned result.
>   limit
>      The maximum number of results that should be returned.
> 
>   Output:
>   hits
>      A list if URIs with properties that are the result of the query.

Seems reasonable.

> How about adding the matching text fragment? This should also be a
> a(sas) because the hits may occur in different fields.

We use a separate API for text fragments in Beagle because extracting
them is extremely slow.  I would recommend against it in the query API.

Joe