Make a remote procedure call. For every call that does not close/terminate the socket connection, expect a response back that's been serialized using Storable.

NAME

LucyX::Remote::SearchClient - Connect to a remote SearchServer.

SYNOPSIS

    my $client = LucyX::Remote::SearchClient->new(
        peer_address => 'searchserver1:7890',
        password     => $pass,
    );
    my $hits = $client->hits( query => $query );

DESCRIPTION

SearchClient is a subclass of Lucy::Search::Searcher which can be used to search an index on a remote machine made accessible via SearchServer.

METHODS

new

Constructor. Takes hash-style params.

• peer_address - The name/IP and the port number which the client should attempt to connect to.

• password - Password to be supplied to the SearchServer when initializing socket connection.