[Xapian-discuss] Node.js binding

[James Aylett]

On 21 Oct 2011, at 15:59, Liam wrote:

> For Enquire::get_mset(callback), the callback will return an array of
> objects (which include a Document):
>  { id: string,
>    rank: number,
>    weight: number,
>    collapse_key: string,
>    collapse_count: number,
>    percent: number,
>    description: string,
>    document: object // Document
>  }
> 
> Sound reasonable?

You almost certainly don't need percent; most people never have a use for this. Also, if you're not giving parameters to `get_mset` then you want  to return something lazy rather than an array, something more like a generator (I don't know what's available to you in V8 & Node). Xapian matches are explicitly paged (so you pull an MSet for a number of entries from a specific offset). Using a generator approach you can implement the paging below the level of the application (perhaps with initial hints), similar to how many ORMs work for LIMIT paging in SQL.

J

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