[CWB] API access for CQPWeb

[Kurt Sultana]

Thanks Andrew.

Up to now, I've done a small test and managed to output concordances as XML
instead of HTML.

I'll then see for collocations. I'm noticing that there is a qname as a
POST parameter which refers to a query cache file. It seems that
collocations are computed using these files (coming from concordances?). Is
this so?  Ideally, I'd pass the word I'd like to find collocations for,
instead of the qname.

Thanks in advance,
Kurt


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Hardie, Andrew
<a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>wrote:

>  This has been on the menu for a very long time. The basic plan was to
> allow all the main scripts to operate in two “modes”, the primary mode that
> sends out HTML-formatted pages, and a secondary mode that returned the data
> in a form more amenable to programmatic manipulation (probably plaintext
> for compactness though I understand either XML or JSON would be trendier
> choices!). ****
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> Then, a single management-script would cope with calling the scripts in
> their secondary mode. Function calls would be made over HTTP GET in the
> form api.php?function=XXXX ; and I was planning ultimately to write an
> object model - exemplified in a JavaScript library - for the clientside.**
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> But a lot of refactoring of the existing main scripts will be needed to
> allow this to work, as execution and HTML rendering are currently tied
> together quite closely and they will need to be disentangled.****
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> (The management script is *lib/api.inc.php*. As you can see I did not get
> very far with it, only outlining what the initial group of functions would
> be.)****
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> If you want to have a go at helping out, be my guest...****
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> best****
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> Andrew.****
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> *From:* cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] *On
> Behalf Of *Kurt Sultana
> *Sent:* 22 January 2013 18:10
> *To:* Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench
> *Subject:* [CWB] API access for CQPWeb****
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> Hi all, ****
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> I really would like to be able to access CQPWeb via some sort of an API
> especially the collocation functionality. Somewhere I've read that this is
> currently under development. Is this so? ****
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> If so, to what extent could I "develop" this? I have working knowledge of
> PHP. ****
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> Thanks in advance,****
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> Kurt****
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