[Xapian-discuss] Perl version of sortable_serialize missing?

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:02:13AM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I attempted to use the sortable_serialize function from perl, however  
> doesn't seem to exist.  The only occurrence of the string "sortable" in  
> the /usr/local/perl/5.10.1/Search/ tree is in the pod in Xapian.pm.

It's wrapped entirely in XS, so the wrapper is in the compiled Xapian.so
shared object.

> What am I doing wrong?
>
> use Search::Xapian;
> ...
>             $doc->add_value(4,sortable_serialize($recdate));

It isn't exported into the global namespace, so you need to explicitly
qualify its name:

    $doc->add_value(4,Search::Xapian::sortable_serialize($recdate));

Cheers,
    Olly