Re^2: RFC: A module to evaluate keywords expressions on tag lists.

[vitoco]

in reply to Re: RFC: A module to evaluate keywords expressions on tag lists.
in thread RFC: A module to evaluate keywords expressions on tag lists.

Is there that much you can do to keywords?

I think not, but this module provides a query parser, a regexp builder and some tests methods. Not only the query language is relevant. Also it is the way that a list of keywords is being stored if you want to use some specific options, then a method to clean up the list string is provided. So it's not only a Search thing. That's made me doubt.

I don't think that "Search::Query" is appropiate, for the same reason as above. May be "Regexp::Keywords"?

BTW, "Search::Query::Google" made me think on a module to retrieve some results from Google (as "Google::Search")... "Search::Keywords::Google" is not much better, but I got the idea and agree on that.

I also have a feeling the matching functionality shouldn't be too heavily integrated.

Could you explain this?

[ikegami]

Could you explain this?

If query building is separate from matching, then you'll be able to match against inputs other than a flat string.

Specifically, only supporting flat strings prevents it from being extended to support "is:unread" or "title:foo"

I'm not saying you should implement those features. I'm saying it would be great if the designed allowed someone to do so.