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Yahoo! Search BOSS Mashup Framework - YDN


The BOSS Mashup Framework is an experimental Python library that provides developers with SQL-like constructs for mashing up the BOSS API with third-party data sources.

The library exposes data constructors that will "best effort" unify response formats regardless of their XML, JSON, RSS/RDF structures. In this paradigm, the developer does not need to specify the parsing and conversion logic per data source, resulting in concise, declarative and simple-to-interpret code.

FeaturesCurrent features of the Mashup Framework include:

Support for SQL-like functions such as select, group (reduce), sort, union, inner join and user defined functions (map)