NAME

         Catmandu::Importer::Z3950 - Package that imports Z3950 data

SYNOPSIS

         # On the command line

         $ catmandu convert Z3950 --host z3950.loc.gov --port 7090 --databaseName Voyager --query "(title = dinosaur)"

         # From Perl

         use Catmandu;

         my $importer = Catmandu->importer('Z3950'
                 host => 'z3950.loc.gov',
                 port => 7090,
                 databaseName => "Voyager",
                 preferredRecordSyntax => "USMARC",
                 queryType => 'PQF', # CQL or PQF
                 query => '@attr 1=4 dinosaur'
         );

         my $n = $importer->each(sub {
           my $hashref = $_[0];
           ...
         });

CONFIGURAION

       host
           The Z3950 host name

       port
           The Z3950 port

       user
           A user name

       password
           A password

       databaseName
           The database to connect to

       preferredRecordSyntax
           The preferred response format (default: USMARC)

       queryType
           The queryType (CQL or PQF)

       query
           The query

       handler
           The Perl handler to parse the response content. Examples are 'USMARC' and 'UNIMARC'

              $ catmandu convert Z3950 \
                       --user 'XXX' \
                       --password 'XXX' \
                       --host z3950.bnf.fr \
                       --port 2211 \
                       --databaseName TOUT-ANA1-UTF8 \
                       --preferredRecordSyntax Unimarc \
                       --queryType PQF \
                       --query '@attr 1=7 9782744024191' \
                       --handler UNIMARC

REQUIREMENTS

       This package uses the ZOOM package internally.  For more info visit:
       http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM-1.28/lib/ZOOM.pod

       The ZOOM package has a hard dependency on YAZ toolkit.  For more info about YAZ, visit:
       https://www.indexdata.com/yaz

       Installing YAZ: - (osx, using homebrew): brew install yaz - (linux, using yum): yum
       install yaz libyaz

AUTHOR

       •   Wouter Willaert, "<wouterw@inuits.eu>"

       •   Patrick Hochstenbach, "<patrick.hochstenbach@ugent.be>"

CONTRIBUTORS

       •   Emmanuel Di Pretoro, "edipretoro at gmail.com"

SEE ALSO

       Catmandu::Iterable