Search::Query::Dialect - abstract base class for query language dialects
my $query = Search::Query->parser->parse('foo');
print $query;
Search::Query::Dialect is the base class from which all query dialects inherit.
A Dialect subclass must implement at least two methods:
Returns the serialized query tree.
Returns one clause of a serialized query tree.
See Search::Query::Dialect::Native for a working example.
This class is a subclass of Rose::ObjectX::CAF. Only new or overridden methods are documented here.
Get/set flag.
Standard attribute accessor. Default value is undef.
All subclasses must override this method. The default behavior is to croak.
Returns the query Dialect instance as a hashref structure, similar to that of Search::QueryParser.
Traverse a Dialect object, calling CODE on each Clause. The CODE reference should expect 4 arguments:
Translate from one Dialect to another. Returns an object blessed into the dialect class.
Add clause as an "or" leaf to the Dialect object.
Add clause as an "and" leaf to the Dialect object.
Add clause as a "not" leaf to the Dialect object.
Add clause as a sub clause to the Dialect object. In this case, clause should also be a Dialect object.
Should return the name of the Field class associated with the Dialect. Default is 'Search::Query::Field'.
Called by Parser in parse() before actually building the Dialect object from query_string.
This allows for any "cleaning up" or other munging of query_string to support the official Parser syntax.
The default just returns query_string untouched. Subclasses should return a parseable string.
Returns the Search::Query::Parser object that generated the Dialect object.
Peter Karman, <karman at cpan.org>
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-search-query at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Search-Query. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Search::Query
You can also look for information at:
Copyright 2010 Peter Karman.
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