> On July 29, 2013, 4:04 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > The main thing that I dislike about this patch is the fact that it adds 
> > methods that are very specific to a certain use case in a public API. Do 
> > you think you could just make it work with a setUserData(void* ) or 
> > something similar? That way anyone who needs to store additional info in a 
> > Term can use that.

It is a good idea, but how do we handle the case of several bits of code that 
each want to call setUserData ? For instance, a library can get a 
Nepomuk2::Query parsed using the new query parser (that has called setUserData 
for every term), and it may also want to store something. This problem can be 
solved by using setUserData(const QString &key, void *), but this would be slow 
and heavy.

There is also the case of code that want to access the positional information. 
If the code is in Nepomuk, it will have to include a private header describing 
the user data format used by the parser (and this format will have to be 
binary-compatible between versions if user can update nepomuk-widgets without 
updating nepomuk-core, or vice versa).

Another possible solution is to keep the positional information in TermPrivate, 
and to put a "friend class Nepomuk2::QueryBuilder" at the top of Term. This 
way, there is nothing exposed in the public API, and QueryBuilder can access 
the positional information through the d-pointer of Term.


- Denis


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On June 27, 2013, 6:45 p.m., Denis Steckelmacher wrote:
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> (Updated June 27, 2013, 6:45 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Nepomuk.
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> This patch adds two fields to Nepomuk2::Query::Term: "position" and "length". 
> By default, they are zero and everything works as before. This change is 
> binary- and source-compatible.
> 
> The in-development Nepomuk query parser (GSoC 2013 project) uses these fields 
> to map parsed terms to the original user query string. By traversing the 
> parse tree (a tree of And, Or and Comparison terms), it is therefore possible 
> to match every term with a piece of input, that can be highlighted 
> accordingly. For instance, each ComparisonTerm can have a different color, 
> its subTerm being rendered using a bold font (like in "sent to *Jimmy*").
> 
> This patch also makes the QuerySerializer serialize the positional 
> information, for debug purposes. This information is not read-back by the 
> deserializer, as the modification would be fairly intrusive, and there is no 
> need to deserialize positional information if the original user query is lost.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   libnepomukcore/query/queryserializer.cpp 7ac6131 
>   libnepomukcore/query/term.h 114baa3 
>   libnepomukcore/query/term.cpp cfb41f4 
>   libnepomukcore/query/term_p.h 6d92b48 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111274/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> The query parser (https://github.com/steckdenis/nepomukqueryparser) is able 
> to store positional information into terms, and this information is valid. 
> The query "files related to mails sent by John, dated of last week" produces 
> the following term tree:
> 
> <and position="0" length="55">
>     <type position="0" length="5" uri="FileDataObject"/>
>     <comparison position="6" length="30" property="relatedTo" comparator="=" 
> inverted="false">
>         <and position="0" length="35">
>             <type position="17" length="5" uri="Message"/>
>             <comparison position="23" length="12" property="messageFrom" 
> comparator=":" inverted="false">
>                 <literal position="31" length="4" datatype="string">
>                     John
>                 </literal>
>             </comparison>
>         </and>
>     </comparison>
>     <and position="46" length="9">
>         <comparison position="46" length="9" property="fileLastModified" 
> comparator="&gt;=" inverted="false">
>             <literal position="46" length="9" datatype="dateTime">
>                 2013-06-16T22:00:00.002Z
>             </literal>
>         </comparison>
>         <comparison position="46" length="9" property="fileLastModified" 
> comparator="&lt;=" inverted="false">
>             <literal position="46" length="9" datatype="dateTime">
>                 2013-06-23T20:00:00.002Z
>             </literal>
>         </comparison>
>     </and>
> </and>
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Denis Steckelmacher
> 
>

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