[Xapian-discuss] some sample perl code

Dan Carpenter error27 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 00:44:59 GMT 2006


2006/2/3, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>:
> I'll add a version of simpleindex to match C++ and the other
> bindings.  Presumably you're happy for me to include your example too?
>

Yeah.  That's great.

> > One thing that puzzled me is I'm not sure about the error handling on
> > set_data() and  add_posting().  Wouldn't they normally return 0 on
> > failure so that you could say set_data() or warn "set_data() failed"?
>
> I think there's no way set_data can fail while add_posting can only
> fail if you try to give an empty termname, in which case an exception is
> thrown.  Looking at the XS glue, that case doesn't seem to be handled
> currently.
>

Hm...  I guess I'll not pass an empty term name then.  Works for me.  ;)

regards,
dan carpenter



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