NAME

       Net::Z3950::ZOOM - Perl extension for invoking the ZOOM-C API.

SYNOPSIS

        use Net::Z3950::ZOOM;
        $conn = Net::Z3950::ZOOM::connection_new($host, $port);
        $errcode = Net::Z3950::ZOOM::connection_error($conn, $errmsg, $addinfo);
        Net::Z3950::ZOOM::connection_option_set($conn, databaseName => "foo");
        # etc.

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides a simple thin-layer through to the ZOOM-C functions in the YAZ toolkit for Z39.50
       and SRW/U communication.  You should not be using this very nasty, low-level API.  You should be using
       the "ZOOM" module instead, which implements a nice, Perlish API on top of this module, conformant to the
       ZOOM Abstract API described at http://zoom.z3950.org/api/

       To enforce the don't-use-this-module prohibition, I am not even going to document it.  If you really,
       really, really want to use it, then it pretty much follows the API described in the ZOOM-C documentation
       at http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/zoom.html

       The only additional (non-ZOOM-C) function provided by this module is event_str(), which takes as its
       argument an event code such as "Net::Z3950::ZOOM::EVENT_SEND_APDU", and returns a corresponding short
       string.

SEE ALSO

       The "ZOOM" module, included in the same distribution as this one.

AUTHOR

       Mike Taylor, <mike@indexdata.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

       Copyright (C) 2005-2017 by Index Data.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.38.2                                       2024-08-07                              Net::Z3950::ZOOM(3pm)