Simple search API proposal, take 2
Jean-Francois Dockes
jean-francois.dockes at wanadoo.fr
Thu Jan 18 08:55:09 PST 2007
Magnus Bergman writes:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:41:10 +0100
> Jean-Francois Dockes <jean-francois.dockes at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > I think that the sequence number can be kept implicit:
> >
> > Query (in s query_string, out i query_handle)
> > GetHitProperties ( in s query_handle, in i offset, in i limit,
> > in as properties, out (sequence of maps)
> > response )
>
> What you call "offset" is exactly what I meant by "sequence number", if
> I didn't misunderstand something. The alternative (really keeping it
> implicit) would be to completely leave it out and just return the bunch
> of hits (much like how read(2) works. But that would also require a
> function similar to lseek(2), so I guess it wouldn't be simpler anyway.
What I mean by:
GetHitProperties ( in s query_handle, in i offset, in i limit,
in as properties, out (sequence of maps) response);
is: return "limit" hits starting from offset "offset". This is a
combined lseek/read call.
I propose that the hit numbers should be implicit *in the response*. We
know that it contains an ordered list of hits from number "offset" to
"offset+limit-1", so I think that there is no point in repeating the hit
number for every entry, as would (in your words): "A map mapping each hit
(sequence number) to a map of property-list of values pairs"
Or did I not understand you ?
jf
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