Xapian discuss - Nov 2006 - 2 questions

Hi there,
I'm wondering how to recognize whitch database type I'm using.
Database::get_description() returns only 'Database()'. Also there is 
no flinf_open() function in php bindings. I can not see any 
differences in file structure. Is there any other way to do that?

Second. I would like to use MatchDecider object. Can You give me any 
example how should it looks like? How should I call a repacement 
function for 'MatchDecider::operator()' mentioned in API? I'm using
php.


Tia
Tom

Ps. sorry for my english :)

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:54:39AM +0100, Tomasz Jackowiak
wrote:
> I'm wondering how to recognize whitch database type I'm using.
Look in the directory - if there's a file called "iamflint",
it's flint.
Otherwise it's quartz.
> Database::get_description() returns only 'Database()'.
That could be improved...
> Also there is no flinf_open() function in php bindings. I can not see
> any differences in file structure. Is there any other way to do that?
Flint::open() isn't currently wrapped, so for now you need to set
XAPIAN_PREFER_FLINT - see:

http://wiki.xapian.org/FlintBackend_2fHowToCreateAFlintDatabase
> Second. I would like to use MatchDecider object. Can You give me any 
> example how should it looks like? How should I call a repacement 
> function for 'MatchDecider::operator()' mentioned in API? I'm
using php.
SWIG doesn't currently support directors for PHP, so we can't wrap any
of the callback-like classes for PHP.  I had a look at PHP's Zend API
and I think it's possible to implement directors for PHP at least -
just nobody has implemented it yet.

Cheers,
    Olly