Long time no blogging on use.perl journals ...
Now I'm working on a module called "WWW::GooglishQuery" that parses Googlish query parameters like
XML url:foobar.com title:-"XSLT"and packs it into appropriate data structure. What's the best API for it? Maybe something like this:
use WWW::GooglishQuery;
use CGI;
my $query = CGI->new();
my $text = $query->param('q');
my $q = WWW::GooglishQuery->new();
$q->parse_query($text);
# ...
Then, how do I extract query parameters? Currently I think of returning query as hashref, that is fully compatible with
SQL::Abstract module. Then we can search database with
Class::DBI::AbstractSearch by passing that hashref.
Any ideas?
A small comment
hex on 2003-12-03T11:13:51
Will the module be parsing anything other than queries? If not, then I'd suggest changing
parse_query() to just
parse(). Not a big change, but saves the end user some typing.
