2007/7/18, Fabrice Colin <<a href="mailto:fabrice.colin@gmail.com">fabrice.colin@gmail.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 7/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <<a href="mailto:mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com">mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I have a few suggestions for updates to the xesam search spec. > > * API: > Remove the session properties search.blocking and search.live. These seemed > to cause more confusion than I anticipated. These can be emulated in the > client side lib as far as my scribblings can tell. Anoter solution might > just be better documentation of course... > +1 from me. > What this would mean for the api methods: >  * GetHits should always block until the requested number of hits has been > found or the entire index has been searched (in which case the SearchDone > signal will be emitted too). >  * CountHits should always block until the entire index has been searched >  * No other methods should block > Okay.</blockquote><div> Good, I shall try and punk people on IRC to get more opinions on this. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> * Query Language: > I suggest we remove the "type" attributeon the query element. You can just > specify the Category- or StoredAs fields in you selectors. > What are these ? I can't find either in the xsd file.</blockquote><div> They are fields in the upcoming ontology :-) Sorry for the obscure reference. So the idea is to replace <query type="Foo"> MY-QUERY-XML </query> with <query>   <equals>     <field name="xesam:category"/>     <string>Foo</string>   </equals> </query> </div> it is more verbose but is also more coherent with the rest of the spec. What do you think about the idea that the server was free to forget hits as soon as they are read if search.live == false? Which as said before would imply that GetHitData should probably return an empty list if search.live == false. Cheers, Mikkel </div>