[sword-devel] local cache of module text

[Daniel Hughes]

Thanks Troy, that interface looks manageable.

Does it support creating and using lucene indexes?

I need that of as you type searching.

Cheers,
Daniel


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>wrote:

>  Daniel,
>
> Please have a look at this IDL.  This is the minimum interface which I
> usually create when wrapping the SWORD engine.  It is full featured enough
> to use all the features of the engine which do no require extending
> functionality.  SWORDWeb uses this interface and our JNI bindings use this
> interface (Android bindings).
>
> http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/bindings/corba/swordorb.idl
>
> It is a very small set of classes and methods on those classes and
> shouldn't be hard to created C# bindings for these.
>
> Hope this is useful,
>
> Troy
>
>
>
>
> On 01/08/2013 11:06 AM, Daniel Hughes wrote:
>
> You make a compelling case, however I need do to more then just construct
> a GUI, I must construction fairly complete c# bindings. And therein lies
> the complication, because swig (or maybe me) for all it's promise appears
> to not be completely up to the task.
>
>  Sincerely,
> Daniel
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Von: Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com>
>> > Am I allowed to pull the text out of the sword module once it is
>> installed
>> > (using the sword libs) and put it in my local sqlite database.
>>
>>  Not a lawyer, so my advice might be of limited value. Many of our
>> modules are public domain and essentially you can do as you like. Many are
>> not and some are quite restrictively licensed. Most of the restrictions are
>> around (re)distribution, so that does not apply here. Which leaves me with
>> "I do not know" and "you probably need to ask a lawyer" and "his advice
>> might vary from module to module and license to license". Or not and
>> everything is easy as it is just on the user's computer.
>>
>> On the more technical side, you would loose an awful lot. Our better
>> modules have paragraphing, sectioning, titles, footnotes, Strongs,
>> morphology etc included and you would either loose that or reinvent that.
>>
>> >From our engine you would get readily formatted HTML (or whatever else
>> you ask it) after application of a variety of arbitrary (or user chosen)
>> filters which add or remove notes, add or remove strongs, add or remove
>> Greek accents, Hebrew vowels and other stuff, add or remove xrefs,
>> transliterate, add ruby notation (for Japanese modules) etc etc. And etc.
>>
>> You would get for free all the logic to deal with different canons and
>> versification systems. You would get for free any future improvements to
>> our engine. You get indexed search with quite interesting ways of looking
>> at the text built in.
>>
>> For all these things you would in essence only need to construct a GUI
>> and interface, while in your current sqlite backend you either do not have
>> them or you need to re-invent them.
>>
>> Yours
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
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