NAME

Metabase::Librarian - front-end interface to Metabase storage

SYNOPSIS

  my $ml = Metabase::Librarian->new( 
    archive => $archive,
    index => $index,
  );

DESCRIPTION

The Metabase::Librarian class provides a front-end interface to user-defined Metabase storage and indexing objects.

USAGE

new

  my $ml = Metabase::Librarian->new( 
    archive => $archive,
    index => $index,
  );

Librarian constructor. Takes two required arguments

• archive -- a Metabase::Archive subclass

• index -- a Metabase::Index subclass

store

  $ml->store( $fact );

search

  $ml->search( %spec );

See Metabase::Index for spec details.

extract

  $fact = $ml->extract( $guid );

exists

  if ( $ml->exists( $guid ) ) { do_stuff() }

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature using the CPAN Request Tracker. Bugs can be submitted through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Metabase

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

• David A. Golden (DAGOLDEN)

• Ricardo J. B. Signes (RJBS)

...no human would stack books this way...

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

 Portions copyright (c) 2008-2009 by David A. Golden
 Portions copyright (c) 2008-2009 by Ricardo J. B. Signes

Licensed under terms of Perl itself (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. A copy of the License was distributed with this file or you may obtain a copy of the License from http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

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