Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...)

[Sebastian Hammer]

At 16:46 08-08-2005 +0200, Paul POULAIN wrote:
> Sebastian Hammer a écrit :
> > At 16:21 08-08-2005 +0200, Paul POULAIN wrote:
> >
> > > > > 5- partial search.
> > > > > But we have no tools to search at all, that's a pity, I agree ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Why not?  You can use the Net::Z3950 module to search in Zebra.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, but I mean internal koha search. when you are in catalogue module, 
> > > for example, and want to edit "the two towers" books, you 1st need to 
> > > search it. and without #5, you won't be able to search anymore.
> >
> > But with Zebra, the internal search *is* a Z39.50 search. Searching using 
> > the up-and-coming Perl/ZOOM API won't be significantly different from 
> > searching using Net::Z3950.
>
> of course, but in 2.2, the internal search is NOT a z3950, it's a select * 
> from mysql_table where ...blabla...
>
> that uses the tables we will drop because (or thanks) to zebra
>
> so, no more search available ;-)

I think Mike's point was that you can pretty easily re-establish basic 
searching over Zebra using Net::Z3950 -- just to get the ball rolling. In 
fact, the query languages supported by Net::Z3950 and the up-and-coming 
ZOOM/Perl API are the same, so it will be easy to migrate.

--Sebastian
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