Last modified: 2007-08-19 15:43:25 UTC
I want to use inline queries programmatically. the problem is there's no way to separate the steps of parsing, querying and rendering. i'd like to be able to get the query results and then render them myself.
This modification is under way. I am about to implement a new storage abstraction layer that will also provide a nicer query API. The time frame for this being finished are the next one or two months, depending on our progress in other tasks.
This change is now complete. Queries have an internal object-representation based on the classes in ./includes/storage/SMW_Query.php. One can programmatically create such a query and forward it to the semantic store for getting the answer. Get a store object (./includes/storage/SMW_Store.php) via smwfGetStore() and execute getQueryResult. The result will be another object, as described in ./includes/storage/SMW_QueryResult.php. You can read-out this result directly, or format it into HTML using one of the query printers in ./includes/SMW_QueryPrinters.php (maybe these will be seperated into single files in the future). Finally, you can generate SMWQuery objects from user-given query strings (wikitext) using the class in ./includes/SMW_QueryProcessor.php.
