2006/12/3, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
2006/12/3, Jos van den Oever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2006/12/3, Joe Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > > Just a quick idea,
> > >
> > > How about using JSON ( www.json.org <http://www.json.org>) as to
> > > represent the query objects (instead of xml)?
> >
> > I'm reluctant to do this because I'm not sure how comprehensive the
> > stacks are for C#. The XML stacks we have -- the built in one in Mono,
> > or libxml2 for C -- are very mature parts of the platforms.
> >
> > > It is light, easily readable, widespread, and there is possibility to
> > > write extremely fast parsers.
> >
> > Maybe, but we should be focusing our efforts on building the search
> > software, not on
hot-serialization-technology-of-the-day parsers.
>
> I agree. Lets just say that the simple interface cannot have nested
> queries, in other works, no brackets. Then it is possible to use dbus
> for specifying the query object.
I'm not sure I follow you. What do you mean by "use dbus for specifying the
query object" ?
if we dont allow for nested queries, a query can be defined as a(iss)
which is a list of query arguments.
i -> query operator: +, -, <, or >
s -> name of the field to search in
s -> value to look for
Then we dont need a query language or a structured string format and
client an server code is much easier to write.
For the simple query this is very desirable.
Cheers,
Jos
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