Working on new module: Requests for Suggestions to API

December 01, 2003

Long time no blogging on use.perl journals …

Now I’m working on a module called “WWW::GooglishQuery” that parses Googlish query parameters like

XML url:foobar.com title:-"XSLT"

and packs it into appropriate data structure. What’s the best API for it? Maybe something like this:> use WWW::GooglishQuery; use CGI;

my $query = CGI->new(); my $text = $query->param(‘q’);

my $q = WWW::GooglishQuery->new(); $q->parse_query($text);

… Then, how do I extract query parameters? Currently I think of returning query as hashref, that is fully compatible with SQL::Abstract module. Then we can search database with Class::DBI::AbstractSearch by passing that hashref.

Any ideas?