Parses a piece of text and generate terms. More...

Public Types
enum	{ FLAG_SPELLING = 128, FLAG_CJK_NGRAM = 2048 }
	Flags to OR together and pass to TermGenerator::set_flags(). More...

enum	stem_strategy { STEM_NONE, STEM_SOME, STEM_ALL, STEM_ALL_Z }
	Stemming strategies, for use with set_stemming_strategy().

enum	stop_strategy { STOP_NONE, STOP_ALL, STOP_STEMMED }
	Stopper strategies, for use with set_stopper_strategy().

typedef int	flags
	For backward compatibility with Xapian 1.2.

Public Member Functions
	TermGenerator (const TermGenerator &o)
	Copy constructor.

TermGenerator &	operator= (const TermGenerator &o)
	Assignment.

	TermGenerator ()
	Default constructor.

	~TermGenerator ()
	Destructor.

void	set_stemmer (const Xapian::Stem &stemmer)
	Set the Xapian::Stem object to be used for generating stemmed terms.

void	set_stopper (const Xapian::Stopper *stop=NULL)
	Set the Xapian::Stopper object to be used for identifying stopwords. More...

void	set_document (const Xapian::Document &doc)
	Set the current document.

const Xapian::Document &	get_document () const
	Get the current document.

void	set_database (const Xapian::WritableDatabase &db)
	Set the database to index spelling data to.

flags	set_flags (flags toggle, flags mask=flags(0))
	Set flags. More...

void	set_stemming_strategy (stem_strategy strategy)
	Set the stemming strategy. More...

void	set_stopper_strategy (stop_strategy strategy)
	Set the stopper strategy. More...

void	set_max_word_length (unsigned max_word_length)
	Set the maximum length word to index. More...

void	index_text (const Xapian::Utf8Iterator &itor, Xapian::termcount wdf_inc=1, const std::string &prefix=std::string())
	Index some text. More...

void	index_text (const std::string &text, Xapian::termcount wdf_inc=1, const std::string &prefix=std::string())
	Index some text in a std::string. More...

void	index_text_without_positions (const Xapian::Utf8Iterator &itor, Xapian::termcount wdf_inc=1, const std::string &prefix=std::string())
	Index some text without positional information. More...

void	index_text_without_positions (const std::string &text, Xapian::termcount wdf_inc=1, const std::string &prefix=std::string())
	Index some text in a std::string without positional information. More...

void	increase_termpos (Xapian::termcount delta=100)
	Increase the term position used by index_text. More...

Xapian::termcount	get_termpos () const
	Get the current term position.

void	set_termpos (Xapian::termcount termpos)
	Set the current term position. More...

std::string	get_description () const
	Return a string describing this object.

Detailed Description

Parses a piece of text and generate terms.

This module takes a piece of text and parses it to produce words which are then used to generate suitable terms for indexing. The terms generated are suitable for use with Query objects produced by the QueryParser class.

Member Enumeration Documentation

anonymous enum

Flags to OR together and pass to TermGenerator::set_flags().

Enumerator

FLAG_SPELLING

Index data required for spelling correction.

FLAG_CJK_NGRAM

Enable generation of n-grams from CJK text.

With this enabled, spans of CJK characters are split into unigrams and bigrams, with the unigrams carrying positional information. Non-CJK characters are split into words as normal.

The corresponding option needs to be passed to QueryParser.

Flag added in Xapian 1.3.4 and 1.2.22, but this mode can be enabled in 1.2.8 and later by setting environment variable XAPIAN_CJK_NGRAM.

Member Function Documentation

void Xapian::TermGenerator::increase_termpos ( Xapian::termcount delta = 100 )

Increase the term position used by index_text.

This can be used between indexing text from different fields or other places to prevent phrase searches from spanning between them (e.g. between the title and body text, or between two chapters in a book).

Parameters

delta Amount to increase the term position by (default: 100).

void Xapian::TermGenerator::index_text	(	const Xapian::Utf8Iterator &	itor,
		Xapian::termcount	wdf_inc = `1`,
		const std::string &	prefix = `std::string()`
	)

Index some text.

Parameters

itor	Utf8Iterator pointing to the text to index.
wdf_inc	The wdf increment (default 1).
prefix	The term prefix to use (default is no prefix).

void Xapian::TermGenerator::index_text	(	const std::string &	text,
		Xapian::termcount	wdf_inc = `1`,
		const std::string &	prefix = `std::string()`
	)

inline

Index some text in a std::string.

Parameters

text	The text to index.
wdf_inc	The wdf increment (default 1).
prefix	The term prefix to use (default is no prefix).

void Xapian::TermGenerator::index_text_without_positions	(	const Xapian::Utf8Iterator &	itor,
		Xapian::termcount	wdf_inc = `1`,
		const std::string &	prefix = `std::string()`
	)

Index some text without positional information.

Just like index_text, but no positional information is generated. This means that the database will be significantly smaller, but that phrase searching and NEAR won't be supported.

Parameters

itor	Utf8Iterator pointing to the text to index.
wdf_inc	The wdf increment (default 1).
prefix	The term prefix to use (default is no prefix).

void Xapian::TermGenerator::index_text_without_positions	(	const std::string &	text,
		Xapian::termcount	wdf_inc = `1`,
		const std::string &	prefix = `std::string()`
	)

inline

Index some text in a std::string without positional information.

Just like index_text, but no positional information is generated. This means that the database will be significantly smaller, but that phrase searching and NEAR won't be supported.

Parameters

text	The text to index.
wdf_inc	The wdf increment (default 1).
prefix	The term prefix to use (default is no prefix).

flags Xapian::TermGenerator::set_flags	(	flags	toggle,
		flags	mask = `flags(0)`
	)

Set flags.

The new value of flags is: (flags & mask) ^ toggle

To just set the flags, pass the new flags in toggle and the default value for mask.

Parameters

toggle	Flags to XOR.
mask	Flags to AND with first.

Returns: The old flags setting.

void Xapian::TermGenerator::set_max_word_length ( unsigned max_word_length )

Set the maximum length word to index.

The limit is on the length of a word prior to stemming and prior to adding any term prefix.

The backends mostly impose a limit on the length of terms (often of about 240 bytes), but it's generally useful to have a lower limit to help prevent the index being bloated by useless junk terms from trying to indexing things like binary data, uuencoded data, ASCII art, etc.

This method was new in Xapian 1.3.1.

Parameters

max_word_length The maximum length word to index, in bytes in UTF-8 representation. Default is 64.

void Xapian::TermGenerator::set_stemming_strategy ( stem_strategy strategy )

Set the stemming strategy.

This method controls how the stemming algorithm is applied. It was new in Xapian 1.3.1.

Parameters

strategy

The strategy to use - possible values are:

STEM_NONE: Don't perform any stemming - only unstemmed terms are generated.
STEM_SOME: Generate both stemmed (with a "Z" prefix) and unstemmed terms. This is the default strategy.
STEM_ALL: Generate only stemmed terms (but without a "Z" prefix).
STEM_ALL_Z: Generate only stemmed terms (with a "Z" prefix).

void Xapian::TermGenerator::set_stopper ( const Xapian::Stopper * stop = NULL )

Set the Xapian::Stopper object to be used for identifying stopwords.

Stemmed forms of stopwords aren't indexed, but unstemmed forms still are so that searches for phrases including stop words still work.

Parameters

stop	The Stopper object to set (default NULL, which means no stopwords).

void Xapian::TermGenerator::set_stopper_strategy ( stop_strategy strategy )

Set the stopper strategy.

Parameters

strategy

The strategy to use - possible values are:

STOP_NONE: Disable stopper for both the stemmed and unstemmed form of the word (Don't use the stopper).
STOP_ALL: Enable stopper for both forms of the word.
STOP_STEMMED: Enable stopper for the stemmed form of the word.

void Xapian::TermGenerator::set_termpos ( Xapian::termcount termpos )

Set the current term position.

Parameters

termpos The new term position to set.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

xapian/termgenerator.h

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