# SearchResult.pm # by John Heidemann # Copyright (C) 1996 by USC/ISI # $Id: SearchResult.pm,v 2.78 2008-07-21 01:20:30 Martin Exp $ # # Copyright (c) 1996 University of Southern California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are # duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising # materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use # acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of # Southern California, Information Sciences Institute. The name of the # University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from # this software without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED # WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF # MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. =head1 NAME WWW::SearchResult - class for results returned from WWW::Search =head1 SYNOPSIS require WWW::Search; require WWW::SearchResult; $search = new WWW::Search; $search->native_query(WWW::Search::escape_query($query)); # Get first result: $result = $search->next_result(); =head1 DESCRIPTION A framework for returning the results of C. =head1 SEE ALSO L =head1 REQUIRED RESULTS The particular fields returned in a result are backend- (search engine-) dependent. However, all search engines are required to return a url and title. (This list may grow in the future.) =head1 METHODS AND FUNCTIONS =cut ##################################################################### package WWW::SearchResult; use strict; use warnings; use CGI; use base 'LWP::MemberMixin'; our $VERSION = do{ my @r = (q$Revision: 2.78 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%03d" x $#r, @r}; =head2 new To create a new WWW::SearchResult, call $result = new WWW::SearchResult(); =cut sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = bless { }, $class; $self->{urls} = (); return $self; } # new =head2 url Returns the primary URL. Note that there may be a list of urls, see also methods C and C. Nothing special is guaranteed about the primary URL other than that it is the first one returned by the back end. Every result is required to have at least one URL. =cut sub url { my $self = shift; if (@_ < 1) { # No arguments, just return the current value: return ${$self->{urls}}[0]; } # if no args unshift @{$self->{urls}}, $_[0]; return $self->{urls}->[0]; } # url sub _elem_array { my $self = shift; my $elem = shift; if (@_ < 1) { # No arguments return wantarray ? @{$self->{$elem}} : $self->{$elem}; } # if if (ref($_[0])) { # Trying to assign an arrayref: $self->{$elem} = $_[0]; } else { # Trying to set to a scalar (or list of scalars); make sure it's # an array even if they give one element: $self->{$elem} = undef; push @{$self->{$elem}}, @_; } # Always return array refrence return $self->{$elem}; } # _elem_array sub _add_elem_array { my $self = shift; my $elem = shift; # No matter how many they're adding: push(@{$self->{$elem}}, @_); } # _add_elem_array =head2 add_url Add a URL to the list. =cut sub add_url { return shift->_add_elem_array('urls', @_); } =head2 urls Return a reference to the list of urls. There is also a primary URL (C). =cut sub urls { return shift->_elem_array('urls', @_); } =head2 add_related_url Add a URL to the related_url list. =cut sub add_related_url { return shift->_add_elem_array('related_urls', @_); } =head2 related_urls Return a reference to the list of related urls. =cut sub related_urls { return shift->_elem_array('related_urls', @_); } =head2 add_related_title Add a title to the list or related titles. =cut sub add_related_title { return shift->_add_elem_array('related_titles', @_); } =head2 related_titles Return a reference to the list of related titles. =cut sub related_titles { return shift->_elem_array('related_titles', @_); } =head2 title, description, score, change_date, index_date, size, raw Set or get attributes of the result. None of these attributes is guaranteed to be provided by a given backend. If an attribute is not provided its method will return C. Typical contents of these attributes: =over 8 =item title The title of the hit result (typically that provided by the 'TITLE' HTML tag). =cut sub title { return shift->_elem('title', @_); } =item description A brief description of the result, as provided (or not) by the search engine. Often the first few sentences of the document. =cut sub description { return shift->_elem('description', @_); } =item source Source is either the base url for this result (as listed on the search engine's results page) or another copy of the full url path of the result. It might also indicate the source site name or address whence the result came, for example, 'CNN' or 'http://www.cnn.com' if the search result page said "found at CNN.com". This value is backend-specific; in fact very few backends set this value. =cut sub source { return shift->_elem('source', @_); } =item add_sources Same meaning as source above, for adding sources in case there are potentially multiple sources. =cut sub add_sources { return shift->_add_elem_array('sources', @_); } =item sources Returns a reference to the list of sources. =cut sub sources { return shift->_elem_array('sources', @_); } =item score A backend specific, numeric score of the search result. The exact range of scores is search-engine specific. Usually larger scores are better, but this is no longer required. See normalized_score for a backend independent score. =cut sub score { return shift->_elem('score', @_); } =item normalized_score This is intended to be a backend-independent score of the search result. The range of this score is between 0 and 1000. Higher values indicate better quality results. This is not really implemented since no one has created an backend-independent ranking algorithm. =cut sub normalized_score { return shift->_elem('normalized_score', @_); } =item change_date When the result was last changed. Typically this is the modification time of the destination web page. =cut sub change_date { return shift->_elem('change_date', @_); } =item index_date When the search engine indexed the result. =cut sub index_date { return shift->_elem('index_date', @_); } =item size The approximate size of the result, in bytes. This is only an approximation because search backends often report the size as "18.4K"; the best we can do with that number is return it as the value of 18.4 * 1024. =cut sub size { return shift->_elem('size', @_); } =item raw The raw HTML for the entire result. Raw should be exactly the raw HTML for one entry. It should not include list or table setup commands (like ul or table tags), but it may include list item or table data commands (like li, tr, or td). Whether raw contains a list entry, table row, br-separated lines, or plain text is search-engine dependent. In fact, many backends do not even return it at all. =cut sub raw { return shift->_elem('raw', @_); } =item as_HTML Convert the search result to a human-readable form, decorated with HTML for pretty-printing. =cut sub as_HTML { my $self = shift; my $cgi = new CGI; my $s = $cgi->a({ href => $self->url, }, $self->title || 'title unknown', ); $s .= $cgi->br; $s .= $self->description || 'no description available'; return $s; } # as_HTML =back =head2 Others More attributes of the result. Backend-specific. Refer to the documentation of each backend for details. =over =item bid_amount =cut sub bid_amount { return shift->_elem('bid', @_); } =item bid_count =cut sub bid_count { return shift->_elem('bids', @_); } =item bidder =cut sub bidder { return shift->_elem('bidder', @_); } =item category =cut sub category { return shift->_elem('category', @_); } =item company =cut sub company { return shift->_elem('company', @_); } =item end_date =cut sub end_date { return shift->_elem('end_date', @_); } =item image_url =cut sub image_url { return shift->_elem('image_url', @_); } =item item_number =cut sub item_number { return shift->_elem('item_number', @_); } =item location =cut sub location { return shift->_elem('location', @_); } =item question_count =cut sub question_count { return shift->_elem('question_count', @_); } =item seller =cut sub seller { return shift->_elem('seller', @_); } =item shipping =cut sub shipping { return shift->_elem('shipping', @_); } =item sold =cut sub sold { return shift->_elem('sold', @_); } =item start_date =cut sub start_date { return shift->_elem('start_date', @_); } =item thumb_url =cut sub thumb_url { return shift->_elem('thumb_url', @_); } =item watcher_count =cut sub watcher_count { return shift->_elem('seller', @_); } =back =head1 AUTHOR WWW::SearchResult was written by John Heidemann. WWW::SearchResult is maintained by Martin Thurn. =cut 1; __END__