[Xapian-discuss] PHP bindings with directors

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:51:56AM +0200, Ví?a Pl?ek wrote:
> today I had realized that Swig supports directors in PHP until now :)
> 
> 	see : http://www.swig.org/

This is the result of the Google Summer of Code project I have been
mentoring this year:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/7460

It went very well and made it into a SWIG release already.

> Now I am trying to make PHP bindings to be able to try XapianDecider in
> PHP, but I don't understand SWIG too much, so I don't know if I will
> succeed.

I've tried to enable directors for Xapian's PHP bindings with this
patch:

http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/patches/xapian-php-bindings-directors.patch

However this doesn't actually work - it seems that the matchdecider that
the C++ layer gets is NULL.  The SWIG testsuite has good coverage for
directors, so we know that PHP directors are working in general.  I
haven't investigated in detail why it doesn't in this case, mostly
because I'm trying to focus on getting to a 1.2.0 release, and we can
enable PHP directors in 1.2.x without breaking existing scripts.

> Is possible that official xapian PHP bindings with directors support for
> current stable version will be made in some short term?

I'd guess maybe a month or two, but it really depends how everything
else goes.

If you want to try to work out what's going on sooner, that'd be great.

Cheers,
    Olly