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NAME
yaz-client - Z39.50/SRU client for implementors
SYNOPSIS
yaz-client [-a apdulog] [-b berdump] [-c cclfile] [-d dump] [-f cmdfile] [-k size] [-m marclog]
[-p proxy-addr] [-q cqlfile] [-t dispcharset] [-u auth] [-v loglevel] [-V] [-x] [server-addr]
DESCRIPTION
yaz-client is a Z39.50[1]/SRU[2] client (origin) with a simple command line interface that allows you to
test behavior and performance of Z39.50 targets and SRU servers.
From YAZ version 4.1.0 yaz-client may also operate as a Solr[3] Web Service client.
If the server-addr is specified, the client creates a connection to the Z39.50/SRU target at the address
given.
When yaz-client is started it tries to read commands from one of the following files:
• Command file if it is given by option -f.
• .yazclientrc in current working directory.
• .yazclientrc in the user's home directory. The value of the HOME is used to determine the home
directory. Normally, HOME is only set on POSIX systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris.
OPTIONS
-a filename
If specified, logging of protocol packages will be appended to the file given. If filename is
specified as -, the output is written to stdout.
-b filename
If specified, YAZ will dump BER data in readable notation to the file specified. If filename is
specified as - the output is written to stdout.
-c filename
If specified, CCL configuration will be read from the file given.
-d dump
If specified, YAZ will dump BER data for all PDUs sent and received to individual files, named
dump.DDD.raw, where DDD is 001, 002, 003, ..
-f cmdfile
Reads commands from cmdfile. When this option is used, YAZ client does not read .yazclientrc from
current directory or home directory.
-k size
Sets preferred messages and maximum record size for Initialize Request in kilobytes. Default value is
65536 (64 MB).
-m filename
If specified, retrieved records will be appended to the file given.
-p proxy-addr
If specified, the client will use the proxy at the address given. YAZ client will connect to a proxy
on the address and port given. The actual target will be specified as part of the InitRequest to
inform the proxy about the actual target.
-q filename
If specified, CQL configuration will be read from the file given.
-t displaycharset
If displaycharset is given, it specifies name of the character set of the output (on the terminal on
which YAZ client is running).
-u auth
If specified, the auth string will be used for authentication.
-v level
Sets the LOG level to level. Level is a sequence of tokens separated by comma. Each token is a
integer or a named LOG item - one of fatal, debug, warn, log, malloc, all, none.
-V
Prints YAZ version.
-x
Makes the YAZ client print hex dumps of packages sent and received on standard output.
COMMANDS
The YAZ client accepts the following commands.
open zurl
Opens a connection to a server. The syntax for zurl is the same as described above for connecting
from the command line.
Syntax:
[(tcp|ssl|unix|http)':']host [:port][/base]
quit
Quits YAZ client
find query
Sends a Search Request using the query given. By default the query is assumed to be PQF. See command
querytype for more information.
delete setname
Deletes result set with name setname on the server.
base base1 base2 ...
Sets the name(s) of the database(s) to search. One or more databases may be specified, separated by
blanks. This command overrides the database given in zurl.
show [start[+number]]
Fetches records by sending a Present Request from the start position given by start and a number of
records given by number. If start is not given, then the client will fetch from the position of the
last retrieved record plus 1. If number is not given, then one record will be fetched at a time.
scan term
Scans database index for a term. The syntax resembles the syntax for find. If you want to scan for
the word water you could write
scan water
but if you want to scan only in, say the title field, you would write
scan @attr 1=4 water
setscan set term
Scans database index for a term within a result set. This is similar to the scan command but has a
result set as its first argument.
scanpos pos
Sets preferred position for scan. This value is used in the next scan. By default, position is 1.
scansize size
Sets number of entries to be returned by scan. Default number of entries is 20.
scanstep step
Set step-size for scan. This value is used in the next scan sent to the target. By default step-size
is 0.
sort sortspecs
Sorts a result set. The sort command takes a sequence of space-separated sort specifications, with
each sort specification consisting of two space-separated words (so that the whole specification list
is made up of an even number of words). The first word of each specification holds a field (sort
criterion) and the second holds flags. If the sort criterion includes = it is assumed that the
SortKey is of type sortAttributes using Bib-1: in this case the integer before = is the attribute
type and the integer following = is the attribute value. If no = character is in the criterion, it is
treated as a sortfield of type InternationalString. The flags word of each sort specification must
consist of s for case sensitive or i for case insensitive, and < for ascending order or > for
descending order.
sort+
Same as sort but stores the sorted result set in a new result set.
authentication openauth
Sets up an authentication string if a server requires authentication (v2 OpenStyle). The
authentication string is first sent to the server when the open command is issued and the Z39.50
Initialize Request is sent, so this command must be used before open in order to be effective. A
common convention for the authopen string is that the username - and password is separated by a
slash, e.g. myusername/mysecret.
sru method version
Selects Web Service method and version. Must be one of post, get, soap (default) or solr. Version
should be either 1.1, 1.2 or 2.0 for SRU. Other versions are allowed - for testing purposes (version
negotiation with SRU server). The version is currently not used for Solr Web Services
list_all
This command displays status and values for many settings.
lslb n
Sets the limit for when no records should be returned together with the search result. See the Z39.50
standard on set bounds[4] for more details.
ssub n
Sets the limit for when all records should be returned with the search result. See the Z39.50
standard on set bounds[4] for more details.
mspn n
Sets the number of records that should be returned if the number of records in the result set is
between the values of lslb and ssub. See the Z39.50 standard on set bounds[4] for more details.
status
Displays the values of lslb, ssub and mspn.
setname
Switches named result sets on and off. Default is on.
cancel
Sends a Trigger Resource Control Request to the target.
facets spec
Specifies requested facets to be used in search. The notation is specified in ???.
format oid
Sets the preferred transfer syntax for retrieved records. yaz-client supports all the record syntaxes
that currently are registered. See Z39.50 Record Syntax Identifiers[5] for more details. Commonly
used records syntaxes include usmarc, sutrs and xml.
elements e
Sets the element set name for the records. Many targets support element sets B (for brief) and F (for
full).
close
Sends a Z39.50 Close APDU and closes connection with the peer
querytype type
Sets the query type as used by command find. The following is supported: prefix for Prefix Query
Notation (Type-1 Query); ccl for CCL search (Type-2 Query), cql for CQL (Type-104 search with CQL
OID), ccl2rpn for CCL to RPN conversion (Type-1 Query), cql2rpn for CQL to RPN conversion (Type-1
Query).
attributeset set
Sets attribute set OID for prefix queries (RPN, Type-1).
refid id
Sets reference ID for Z39.50 Request(s).
itemorder type no
Sends an Item Order Request using the ILL External. type is either 1 or 2 which corresponds to
ILL-Profile 1 and 2 respectively. The no is the Result Set position of the record to be ordered.
update action recid doc
Sends Item Update Request. The action argument must be the action type: one of insert, replace,
delete and update. The second argument, recid, is the record identifier (any string). Third argument
which is optional is the record document for the request. If doc is preceded with "<", then the
following characters are treated as a filename with the records to be updated. Otherwise doc is
treated as a document itself. The doc may also be quoted in double quotes. If doc is omitted, the
last received record (as part of present response or piggybacked search response) is used for the
update.
source filename
Executes list of commands from file filename, just like 'source' on most UNIX shells. A single dot
(.) can be used as an alternative.
! args
Executes command args in subshell using the system call.
push_command command
The push_command takes another command as its argument. That command is then added to the history
information (so you can retrieve it later). The command itself is not executed. This command only
works if you have GNU readline/history enabled.
set_apdufile filename
Sets that APDU should be logged to file filename. Another way to achieve APDU log is by using
command-line option -a.
set_auto_reconnect flag
Specifies whether YAZ client automatically reconnects if the target closes connection (Z39.50 only).
flag must be either on or off.
set_auto_wait flag
Specifies whether YAZ client should wait for response protocol packages after a request. By default
YAZ client waits (on) for response packages immediately after a command (find, show) has been issued.
If off is used, YAZ client does not attempt to receive packages automatically. These will have to be
manually received when command wait_response is used.
flag must be either on or off.
set_marcdump filename
Specifies that all retrieved records should be appended to file filename. This command does the thing
as option -m.
schema schemaid
Specifies schema for retrieval. Schema may be specified as an OID for Z39.50. For SRU, schema is a
simple string URI.
charset negotiationcharset [displaycharset] [[marccharset]]
Specifies character set (encoding) for Z39.50 negotiation / SRU encoding and/or character set for
output (terminal).
negotiationcharset is the name of the character set to be negotiated by the server. The special name
- for negotiationcharset specifies no character set to be negotiated.
If displaycharset is given, it specifies name of the character set of the output (on the terminal on
which YAZ client is running). To disable conversion of characters to the output encoding, the special
name - (dash) can be used. If the special name auto is given, YAZ client will convert strings to the
encoding of the terminal as returned by nl_langinfo call.
If marccharset is given, it specifies name of the character set of retrieved MARC records from
server. See also marccharset command.
Note
Since character set negotiation takes effect in the Z39.50 Initialize Request you should issue
this command before command open is used.
Note
MARC records are not covered by Z39.50 character set negotiation, so that's why there is a
separate character that must be known in order to do meaningful conversion(s).
negcharset charset
Specifies character set for negotiation (Z39.50). The argument is the same as second argument for
command charset.
displaycharset charset
Specifies character set for output (display). The argument is the same as second argument for command
charset.
marccharset charset
Specifies character set for retrieved MARC records so that YAZ client can display them in a character
suitable for your display. See charset command. If auto is given, YAZ will assume that MARC21/USMARC
is using MARC8/UTF8 and ISO-8859-1 for all other MARC variants. The charset argument is the same as
third argument for command charset.
querycharset charset
Specifies character set for query terms for Z39.50 RPN queries and Z39.50 Scan Requests
(termListAndStartPoint). This is a pure client-side conversion which converts from displayCharset to
queryCharset.
set_cclfile filename
Specifies that CCL fields should be read from file file filename. This command does the thing as
option -c.
set_cqlfile filename
Specifies that CQL fields should be read from file file filename. This command does the thing as
option -q.
register_oid name class OID
This command allows you to register your own object identifier - so that instead of entering a long
dot-notation you can use a short name instead. The name is your name for the OID, class is the class,
and OID is the raw OID in dot notation. Class is one of: appctx, absyn, attet, transyn, diagset,
recsyn, resform, accform, extserv, userinfo, elemspec, varset, schema, tagset, general. If you're in
doubt use the general class.
register_tab command string
This command registers a TAB completion string for the command given.
sleep seconds
This command makes YAZ client sleep (be idle) for the number of seconds given.
wait_response [ number]
This command makes YAZ client wait for a number of response packages from target. If number is
omitted, 1 is assumed.
This command is rarely used and is only useful if command set_auto_wait is set to off.
xmles OID doc
Sends XML Extended Services request using the OID and doc given.
zversion ver
This command sets Z39.50 version for negotiation. Should be used before open. By default 3 (version
3) is used.
options op1 op2..
This command sets Z39.50 options for negotiation. Should be used before open.
The following options are supported: search, present, delSet, resourceReport, triggerResourceCtrl,
resourceCtrl, accessCtrl, scan, sort, extendedServices, level_1Segmentation, level_2Segmentation,
concurrentOperations, namedResultSets, encapsulation, resultCount, negotiationModel,
duplicationDetection, queryType104, pQESCorrection, stringSchema.
EXAMPLE
The simplest example of a Prefix Query would be something like
f knuth
or
f "donald knuth"
In those queries, no attributes were specified. This leaves it up to the server what fields to search but
most servers will search in all fields. Some servers do not support this feature though, and require that
some attributes are defined. To add one attribute you could do:
f @attr 1=4 computer
where we search in the title field, since the use(1) is title(4). If we want to search in the author
field and in the title field, and in the title field using right truncation it could look something like
this:
f @and @attr 1=1003 knuth @attr 1=4 @attr 5=1 computer
Finally using a mix of Bib-1 and GILS attributes could look something like this:
f @attrset Bib-1 @and @attr GILS 1=2008 Washington @attr 1=21 weather
FILES
yaz-<version>/client/client.c
$HOME/.yazclientrc
$HOME/.yazclient.history
SEE ALSO
yaz(7) bib1-attr(7)
AUTHORS
Index Data
NOTES
1. Z39.50
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/
2. SRU
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/
3. Solr
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
4. Z39.50 standard on set bounds
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/markup/04.html#3.2.2.1.6
5. Z39.50 Record Syntax Identifiers
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/oids.html#5