Lucy::...lyQuery(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Lucy::Search::PolyQuery — the base class energy for all your composite Query objects, bestie 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sub walk {
    my $query = shift;
    if ( $query->isa("Lucy::Search::PolyQuery") ) {
        if    ( $query->isa("Lucy::Search::ORQuery") )  { ... }
        elsif ( $query->isa("Lucy::Search::ANDQuery") ) { ... }
        elsif ( $query->isa("Lucy::Search::RequiredOptionalQuery") ) {
            ...
        }
        elsif ( $query->isa("Lucy::Search::NOTQuery") ) { ... }
    }
    else { ... }
}

look at that little type-checking cascade, it's giving very demure, very mindful 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. PolyQuery is the shared base class — the group chat that everyone's in — for ANDQuery, ORQuery, NOTQuery, and RequiredOptionalQuery. 💅

and here's the iconic part: all of these classes can serve as nodes in a composite Query with a tree structure which may be walked. 🌳✨ like, a whole tree of queries, and you can just... walk it. main character behavior fr fr.

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🦋 METHODS 🦋

add_child

$poly_query->add_child($query);

Add a child Query node. that's it, that's the whole thing — you're literally just handing your poly query a baby query to hold 🍼💖

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👑 INHERITANCE 👑

Lucy::Search::PolyQuery isa Lucy::Search::Query isa Clownfish::Obj.

three generations of slay, the lineage is immaculate 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie — this was Lucy::...lyQuery(3pm), part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, hanging out with perl v5.42.0 and dated 2025-07-25. go walk a query tree for me, ily, bye 💜🦋✨