Query Capabilities: Search Methods and Wrappers¶
Some sources offer limited query capabilities. For instance, most web sources can only be queried with constraints imposed by a specific HTML query form.
The description of the query capabilities in Virtual DataPort is done through the so-called search methods. For each view, the administrator can define one or more search methods.
When creating a search method, the following elements should be
specified: the list of query constraints, the list of output attributes
and the wrapper, created beforehand using the statement
CREATE WRAPPER
, which is responsible for extracting the data from
the source.