Client API

Package - A rice(collection of config files for a program) with metadata

• init(program, rice) - Initialized with a program name and rice name
• Functions:
  1. Swap_in - Uses package metadata to move rice files to correct locations
  2. Swap_out - Uses package metadata to move rice files from installed locations to the .rdb/[program]/[rice]/

Query - A search of the index server for a rice

• init(search term(s))
• query.result - list of jsons that will be created from a search to the package server

Download/Unzip - A Class or static method for obtaining a package from a server

• init or argument - URL, program name, rice name
• Functions:
  1. Download - Downlads the zipped package from the given url
  2. Unzip - Unzips the downloaded package into .rdb/[program name]/ in the folder [rice name]