General

• Map the DICT commands to slang functions.

• provide the feature "dict-backend":

  provide("dict-backend");
  

  This way a user (or a frontend) can select a backend with:

  require("dict-backend", "dict-<flavour>.sl");  
  

Commands

DEFINE database word:

--> dict_define(word, database, host);

MATCH database strategy word:

--> dict_match(word, strategy, database, host)

SHOW:

--> dict_show(what, host)

Arguments

All arguments are strings

word:	search term, can be also a string of more than one word
database:	comma separated list of databases use dict_show("db", host) to get a list of valid database names
host:	URL of the host, may contain the port appended after colon e.g. "localhost", "dict.org", "dict.example.org:3343"
strategy:	use dict_show("strat", host) to get valid values
what:	one of "db", "strat", "server", "info:<db>"

Return value

The slang functions should insert the result of the command into the current buffer.

This is the easiest way for the command line interface, otherwise I would need to insert the command, read it to a string and pass upwards (only to be eventually re-inserted by the calling fun))

An alternative is: return response as string

Preferabely format the response similar to the dict command line program.

Commands not needed in the basic version

CLIENT text STATUS HELP % is this needed? Possibly use dict_show("help") QUIT OPTION AUTH username authentication-string SASLAUTH