[Xapian-discuss] Perl version of sortable_serialize missing?

[Jim Lynch]

On 01/20/2012 08:21 PM, Olly Betts wrote:
> 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
>
For the record, that doesn't work either on my system.  It's moot, since 
I wrote my own serialize function.

423:                my $serDate = Search::Xapian::sortable_serialize($date);
   DB<2>
Can't locate auto/Search/Xapian/sortable_se.al in @INC (@INC contains: 
/etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 
/usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 
/usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /data1/mail//Mail/ngenindex.pl line 423
  at /usr/share/perl/5.10/AutoLoader.pm line 47
     AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD(925759433) called at 
/data1/mail//Mail/ngenindex.pl line 423

Unless you can't assign the results to a variable.

Thanks,
Jim.