NAME

Lingua::Thesaurus::Storage - Role for thesaurus storage

DESCRIPTION

This role specifies the interface for thesaurus storage classes.

METHODS

Retrieval methods

search_terms

Implementation for "search_terms" in Lingua::Thesaurus.

fetch_term

Implementation for "fetch_term" in Lingua::Thesaurus.

related

Implementation for "related" in Lingua::Thesaurus::Term.

rel_types

Implementation for "rel_types" in Lingua::Thesaurus.

fetch_rel_type

Implementation for "fetch_rel_type" in Lingua::Thesaurus.

Populating the database

initialize

Called by an IO class to initialize storage before a load operation.

do_transaction

  $storage->do_transaction($coderef);

Will execute $coderef within a transaction. This is used by "load" in Lingua::Thesaurus::IO to store all terms and relations in a single step.

store_term

  my $term_id = $storage->store_term($term_string);

Stores a new term, and returns the unique storage id for this term. Depending on the implementation, an exception could be raised if several attempts are made to store the same $term_string.

store_rel_type

  $storage->store_rel_type($rel_id, $description, $is_external);

Stores a new relation type.

• $rel_id is a unique identifier string for this relation type (such as 'NT' or 'UF').

• $description is an optional free text description

• $is_external is a boolean which tells whether related items will be other terms or external data.

store_relation

  $storage->store_relation($term_id, $rel_id, $related,
                           $is_external, $inverse_id);

Stores a relation, where

• $term_id is the unique identifier for the first term in the relation

• $rel_id is the unique identifier for relation type

• $related is an arrayref of items to relate to the term; if $is_external is true, these items can be any scalar; if $is_external is false, items should be identifiers of other terms.

  The storage should preserve the order of items in $related, i.e. the "related" method should return items in the same order.

• $is_external is a boolean which tells what kind of items are related, as explained above

• $inverse_id is the optional identifier of the inverse relation type; if non-null, relations will be stored in both directions.

finalize

Will be called by IO classes after loading files. Storage implementations may use this to perform cleanup operations if needed.

cpanm Lingua::Thesaurus

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Lingua::Thesaurus