Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (230 mails)

["Duncan Mac-Vicar P." <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Matz wrote:
> I have no opinion on the libzypp API for searches, but I can tell you
> what
> the satsolver library will provide (and partly provides already):
>
> It has a generic repo_search function.  The results will be given to you 
> via a callback function.  It will accept strings and numbers, searching 
> in one or all solvables, in one or all attributes, for substrings, globs 
> or regexps, case sensitive or case insensitive.  Via the callback you will 
> be given the information of which solvable matches, in which attribute, 
> and what the value of it is.
>
> Using the repo_search function will be much faster and take much less 
> memory than implementing the searches by hand in libzypp (those would need 
> to retrieve all attributes one by one, or (even worse) cache that data 
> itself).
>
>
> Ciao,
> Michael.
>   

Actually that is what I am going to use to replace ResolvableQuery, it
should be straightforward, and we have already the attribute class, and
this time the callback can send back a ResObject, which was not possible
before.

Duncan

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