[Xapian-devel] GSoC xapian node binding

[Liam]

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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Marius Tibeica <mtibeica at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Liam <xapian at networkimprov.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Marius Tibeica <mtibeica at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Finished the design of the sync methods:
>>> https://github.com/mtibeica/node-xapian/blob/master/docs.md
>>> I will probably continue with the creation of a test framework and
>>> porting the tests from the Perl binding.
>>>
>>
>> Can you look for other places where we can combine multiple methods into
>> a single one with an object argument, as with Query::Query? For instance
>> Enquire::set_sort_*
>>
>
> Is is possible to set multiple sort types with Enquire? The method names
> seem to suggest otherwise to me.
> We could do a set_sort with an array of objects like {  by: 'relevance' },
> { by: 'value', sort_key: uint32, reverse: 'bool'}, and if a succession of
> these objects is not supported (more than 2 elements, etc), to throw a not
> yet supported exception.
>

I think an Enquire parameters object could include collapse-key,
docid-order, cutoff, value, and a relevance field which can be:
  0 or undefined - value ? set_sort_by_value : noop
  1 - value ? set_sort_by_relevance_then_value : set_sort_by_relevance
  2 - value ? set_sort_by_value_then_relevance : set_sort_by_relevance

Also for testing, we'd benefit from a simple HTTP-fronted Node app to which
>> a user can post documents and submit queries. We could pull an interesting
>> corpus into that, e.g. Wikipedia...
>>
>

> Sure, that sounds great, but for the code writing I think that specific
> unit tests with predictable answers are more useful to me. The HTTP-fronted
> Node app looks more like a great "getting started" app, which I'll add to
> my todo list.
>

Yes, you need unit tests ported from Perl, for sure. The Node app is to
test the whole system, evaluate performance, etc

Liam
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