internal package Foswiki::Contrib::DBCacheContrib::Search

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internal package Foswiki::Contrib::DBCacheContrib::Search

Search operators work on the fields of a Foswiki::Contrib::DBCacheContrib::Map.

Example

Get a list of attachments that have a date earlier than 1st January 2000

  $db = new Foswiki::Contrib::DBCacheContrib::DBCache( $web ); # always done
  $db->load();
  my $search = new Foswiki::Contrib::DBCacheContrib::Search("date EARLIER_THAN '1st January 2000'");

  foreach my $topic ($db->getKeys()) {
     my $attachments = $topic->fastget("attachments");
     foreach my $val ($attachments->getValues()) {
       if ($search->matches($val)) {
          print $val->fastget("name") . "\n";
       }
     }
  }

A search object implements the "matches" method as its general contract with the rest of the world.

new($string)

• $string - string containing an expression to parse

Construct a new search node by parsing the passed expression.

toString() -> string

Generates a string representation of the object.

--+++ =addOperator(%oper) Add an operator to the parser

%oper is a hash, containing the following fields:

• name - operator string
• prec - operator precedence, positive non-zero integer. Larger number => higher precedence.
• arity - set to 1 if this operator is unary, 2 for binary. Arity 0 is legal, should you ever need it.
• exec - the handler to implement the new operator