1Xapian::QueryParser(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentationXapian::QueryParser(3)
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6 Search::Xapian::QueryParser - Parse a query string into a
7 Search::Xapian::Query object
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10 This module turns a human readable string into something Xapian can
11 understand. The syntax supported is designed to be similar to other
12 web based search engines, so that users familiar with them don't have
13 to learn a whole new syntax.
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16 use Search::Xapian qw/:standard/;
17 my $qp = new Search::Xapian::QueryParser( [$database] );
19 $qp->set_stemmer(new Search::Xapian::Stem("english"));
20 $qp->set_default_op(OP_AND);
21 $database->enquire($qp->parse_query('a NEAR word OR "a phrase" NOT (too difficult) +eh'));
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25 new <database>
26 QueryParser constructor.
27 set_stemmer <stemmer>
29 Set the Search::Xapian::Stem object to be used for stemming query
30 terms.
31 set_stemming_strategy <strategy>
33 Set the stemming strategy. Valid values are "STEM_ALL",
34 "STEM_SOME", "STEM_NONE".
35 set_stopper <stopper>
37 Set the Search::Xapian::Stopper object to be used for identifying
38 stopwords.
39 set_default_op <operator>
41 Set the default operator.
42 This operator is used to combine non-filter query items when no
44 explicit operator is used.
45 The most useful values for this are OP_OR (the default) and OP_AND.
47 OP_NEAR and OP_PHRASE can also be useful.
48 See Search::Xapian for descriptions of these constants.
50 get_default_op
52 Returns the current default operator.
53 set_database <database>
55 Pass a Search::Xapian::Database object which is used to check
56 whether terms exist in some situations.
57 parse_query <query_string> [<flags>]
59 Parses the query string according to the rules defined in the query
60 parser documentation below. You can specify certain flags to modify
61 the searching behaviour:
62 FLAG_BOOLEAN, FLAG_PHRASE, FLAG_LOVEHATE, FLAG_BOOLEAN_ANY_CASE,
64 FLAG_WILDCARD, FLAG_PURE_NOT, FLAG_PARTIAL, FLAG_SPELLING_CORRECTION,
65 FLAG_SYNONYM, FLAG_AUTO_SYNONYMS, FLAG_AUTO_MULTIWORD_SYNONYMS
66 To specify multiple flags, "bitwise or" them together (with "|").
68 The default flags are "FLAG_PHRASE|FLAG_BOOLEAN|FLAG_LOVEHATE"
69 add_prefix <field> <prefix>
71 Add a probabilistic term prefix. E.g. $qp->add_prefix("author",
72 "A");
73 Allows the user to search for author:orwell which will search for
75 the term "Aorwel" (assuming English stemming is in use). Multiple
76 fields can be mapped to the same prefix (so you can e.g. make
77 title: and subject: aliases for each other).
78 Parameters: field The user visible field name prefix The
80 term prefix to map this to
81 add_boolean_prefix <field> prefix
83 Add a boolean term prefix allowing the user to restrict a search
84 with a boolean filter specified in the free text query. E.g.
85 $p->add_boolean_prefix("site", "H");
87 Allows the user to restrict a search with site:xapian.org which
89 will be converted to Hxapian.org combined with any probabilistic
90 query with "OP_FILTER".
91 Multiple fields can be mapped to the same prefix (so you can e.g.
93 make site: and domain: aliases for each other).
94 Parameters: field The user visible field name prefix The
96 term prefix to map this to
97 stoplist_begin
99 stoplist_end
100 unstem_begin
101 unstem_end
102 get_description
103 Returns a string describing this object.
104 get_corrected_query_string
106 Get the spelling-corrected query string.
107 This will only be set if FLAG_SPELLING_CORRECTION is specified when
109 QueryParser::parse_query() was last called.
110 If there were no corrections, an empty string is returned.
112 set_max_wildcard_expansion <limit>
114 Specify the maximum expansion of a wildcard term.
115 Note: you must also set FLAG_WILDCARD for wildcard expansion to
117 happen.
118 Parameter limit is the maximum number of terms each wildcard in the
120 query can expand to, or 0 for no limit (which is the default).
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123 https://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html
124 https://xapian.org/docs/sourcedoc/html/classXapian_1_1QueryParser.html
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