Xapian Namespace Reference

The Xapian library lives in the Xapian namespace. More...


Classes

class  Database
 This class is used to access a database, or a group of databases. More...
class  WritableDatabase
 This class provides read/write access to a database. More...
class  Document
 A document in the database - holds data, values, terms, and postings. More...
class  MSet
 A match set (MSet). More...
class  MSetIterator
 An iterator pointing to items in an MSet. More...
class  ESet
 Class representing an ordered set of expand terms (an ESet). More...
class  ESetIterator
 Iterate through terms in the ESet. More...
class  RSet
 A relevance set (R-Set). More...
class  MatchDecider
 Base class for matcher decision functor. More...
class  Enquire
 This class provides an interface to the information retrieval system for the purpose of searching. More...
class  Weight
 Abstract base class for weighting schemes. More...
class  BoolWeight
 Boolean weighting scheme (everything gets 0). More...
class  BM25Weight
 BM25 weighting scheme. More...
class  TradWeight
 Traditional probabilistic weighting scheme. More...
class  ErrorHandler
 Decide if a Xapian::Error exception should be ignored. More...
class  ExpandDecider
 Virtual base class for expand decider functor. More...
class  ExpandDeciderAnd
 ExpandDecider subclass which rejects terms using two ExpandDeciders. More...
class  ExpandDeciderFilterTerms
 ExpandDecider subclass which rejects terms in a specified list. More...
class  MultipleMatchDecider
 Class which applies several match deciders in turn. More...
struct  StringAndFrequency
 A string with a corresponding frequency. More...
class  StringListSerialiser
 Class to serialise a list of strings in a form suitable for ValueCountMatchSpy. More...
class  StringListUnserialiser
 Class to unserialise a list of strings serialised by a StringListSerialiser. More...
class  ValueCountMatchSpy
 Class for counting the frequencies of values in the matching documents. More...
class  TermCountMatchSpy
 Class for counting the frequencies of terms in the matching documents. More...
class  CategorySelectMatchSpy
 MatchSpy for classifying matching documents by their values. More...
class  TermPosWrapper
class  PositionIterator
 An iterator pointing to items in a list of positions. More...
class  DocIDWrapper
class  PostingIterator
 An iterator pointing to items in a list of postings. More...
class  Query
 Class representing a query. More...
class  Stopper
 Base class for stop-word decision functor. More...
class  SimpleStopper
 Simple implementation of Stopper class - this will suit most users. More...
struct  ValueRangeProcessor
 Base class for value range processors. More...
class  StringValueRangeProcessor
 Handle a string range. More...
class  DateValueRangeProcessor
 Handle a date range. More...
class  NumberValueRangeProcessor
 Handle a number range. More...
class  QueryParser
 Build a Xapian::Query object from a user query string. More...
class  Sorter
 Virtual base class for sorter functor. More...
class  MultiValueSorter
 Sorter subclass which sorts by a several values. More...
class  Stem
 Class representing a stemming algorithm. More...
class  TermGenerator
 Parses a piece of text and generate terms. More...
class  TermNameWrapper
class  TermIterator
 An iterator pointing to items in a list of terms. More...
class  Utf8Iterator
 An iterator which returns unicode character values from a UTF-8 encoded string. More...
class  ValueIterator
 An iterator pointing to values associated with a document. More...

Typedefs

typedef unsigned doccount
 A count of documents.
typedef int doccount_diff
 A signed difference between two counts of documents.
typedef unsigned docid
 A unique identifier for a document.
typedef double doclength
 A normalised document length.
typedef int percent
 The percentage score for a document in an MSet.
typedef unsigned termcount
 A counts of terms.
typedef int termcount_diff
 A signed difference between two counts of terms.
typedef unsigned termpos
 A term position within a document or query.
typedef int termpos_diff
 A signed difference between two term positions.
typedef unsigned timeout
 A timeout value in microseconds.
typedef unsigned valueno
 The number for a value slot in a document.
typedef int valueno_diff
 A signed difference between two value slot numbers.
typedef double weight
 The weight of a document or term.

Functions

bool operator== (const MSetIterator &a, const MSetIterator &b)
bool operator!= (const MSetIterator &a, const MSetIterator &b)
bool operator== (const ESetIterator &a, const ESetIterator &b)
bool operator!= (const ESetIterator &a, const ESetIterator &b)
bool operator== (const StringListUnserialiser &a, const StringListUnserialiser &b)
bool operator!= (const StringListUnserialiser &a, const StringListUnserialiser &b)
bool operator== (const PositionIterator &a, const PositionIterator &b)
 Test equality of two PositionIterators.
bool operator!= (const PositionIterator &a, const PositionIterator &b)
 Test inequality of two PositionIterators.
bool operator== (const PostingIterator &a, const PostingIterator &b)
 Test equality of two PostingIterators.
bool operator!= (const PostingIterator &a, const PostingIterator &b)
 Test inequality of two PostingIterators.
XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT
std::string 
sortable_serialise (double value)
 Convert a floating point number to a string, preserving sort order.
XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT
double 
sortable_unserialise (const std::string &value)
 Convert a string encoded using sortable_serialise back to a floating point number.
bool operator== (const TermIterator &a, const TermIterator &b)
bool operator!= (const TermIterator &a, const TermIterator &b)
bool operator== (const ValueIterator &a, const ValueIterator &b)
bool operator!= (const ValueIterator &a, const ValueIterator &b)
XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT
const char * 
version_string ()
 Report the version string of the library which the program is linked with.
XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT XAPIAN_DEPRECATED (const char *xapian_version_string())
 For compatibility with Xapian 0.9.5 and earlier.
XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT int major_version ()
 Report the major version of the library which the program is linked to.
XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT XAPIAN_DEPRECATED (int xapian_major_version())
 For compatibility with Xapian 0.9.5 and earlier.
XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT int minor_version ()
 Report the minor version of the library which the program is linked to.
XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT int revision ()
 Report the revision of the library which the program is linked to.

Variables

const int DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN = 1
 Open for read/write; create if no db exists.
const int DB_CREATE = 2
 Create a new database; fail if db exists.
const int DB_CREATE_OR_OVERWRITE = 3
 Overwrite existing db; create if none exists.
const int DB_OPEN = 4
 Open for read/write; fail if no db exists.
const valueno BAD_VALUENO = static_cast<valueno>(-1)
 Reserved value to indicate "no valueno".


Detailed Description

The Xapian library lives in the Xapian namespace.

Typedef Documentation

typedef unsigned Xapian::doccount

A count of documents.

This is used to hold values such as the number of documents in a database and the frequency of a term in the database.

typedef int Xapian::doccount_diff

A signed difference between two counts of documents.

This is used by the Xapian classes which are STL containers of documents for "difference_type".

typedef unsigned Xapian::docid

A unique identifier for a document.

Docid 0 is invalid, providing an "out of range" value which can be used to mean "not a valid document".

typedef double Xapian::doclength

A normalised document length.

The normalised document length is the document length divided by the average document length in the database.

typedef int Xapian::percent

The percentage score for a document in an MSet.

typedef unsigned Xapian::termcount

A counts of terms.

This is used to hold values such as the Within Document Frequency (wdf).

typedef int Xapian::termcount_diff

A signed difference between two counts of terms.

This is used by the Xapian classes which are STL containers of terms for "difference_type".

typedef unsigned Xapian::termpos

A term position within a document or query.

typedef int Xapian::termpos_diff

A signed difference between two term positions.

This is used by the Xapian classes which are STL containers of positions for "difference_type".

typedef unsigned Xapian::timeout

A timeout value in microseconds.

There are 1 million microseconds in a second, so for example, to set a timeout of 5 seconds use 5000000.

typedef unsigned Xapian::valueno

The number for a value slot in a document.

Any value slot number except Xapian::BAD_VALUENO is valid.

typedef int Xapian::valueno_diff

A signed difference between two value slot numbers.

This is used by the Xapian classes which are STL containers of values for "difference_type".

typedef double Xapian::weight

The weight of a document or term.


Function Documentation

XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT int Xapian::major_version (  ) 

Report the major version of the library which the program is linked to.

This may be different to the version compiled against (given by XAPIAN_MAJOR_VERSION) if shared libraries are being used.

XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT int Xapian::minor_version (  ) 

Report the minor version of the library which the program is linked to.

This may be different to the version compiled against (given by XAPIAN_MINOR_VERSION) if shared libraries are being used.

bool Xapian::operator!= ( const PostingIterator &  a,
const PostingIterator &  b 
) [inline]

Test inequality of two PostingIterators.

bool Xapian::operator!= ( const PositionIterator &  a,
const PositionIterator &  b 
) [inline]

Test inequality of two PositionIterators.

bool Xapian::operator== ( const PostingIterator &  a,
const PostingIterator &  b 
) [inline]

Test equality of two PostingIterators.

bool Xapian::operator== ( const PositionIterator &  a,
const PositionIterator &  b 
) [inline]

Test equality of two PositionIterators.

XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT int Xapian::revision (  ) 

Report the revision of the library which the program is linked to.

This may be different to the version compiled against (given by XAPIAN_REVISION) if shared libraries are being used.

XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT std::string Xapian::sortable_serialise ( double  value  ) 

Convert a floating point number to a string, preserving sort order.

This method converts a floating point number to a string, suitable for using as a value for numeric range restriction, or for use as a sort key.

The conversion is platform independent.

The conversion attempts to ensure that, for any pair of values supplied to the conversion algorithm, the result of comparing the original values (with a numeric comparison operator) will be the same as the result of comparing the resulting values (with a string comparison operator). On platforms which represent doubles with the precisions specified by IEEE_754, this will be the case: if the representation of doubles is more precise, it is possible that two very close doubles will be mapped to the same string, so will compare equal.

Note also that both zero and -zero will be converted to the same representation: since these compare equal, this satisfies the comparison constraint, but it's worth knowing this if you wish to use the encoding in some situation where this distinction matters.

Handling of NaN isn't (currently) guaranteed to be sensible.

XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT double Xapian::sortable_unserialise ( const std::string &  value  ) 

Convert a string encoded using sortable_serialise back to a floating point number.

This expects the input to be a string produced by sortable_serialise(). If the input is not such a string, the value returned is undefined (but no error will be thrown).

The result of the conversion will be exactly the value which was supplied to sortable_serialise() when making the string on platforms which represent doubles with the precisions specified by IEEE_754, but may be a different (nearby) value on other platforms.

XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT const char* Xapian::version_string (  ) 

Report the version string of the library which the program is linked with.

This may be different to the version compiled against (given by XAPIAN_VERSION) if shared libraries are being used.

XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT Xapian::XAPIAN_DEPRECATED ( int   xapian_major_version()  ) 

For compatibility with Xapian 0.9.5 and earlier.

Deprecated:
This function is now deprecated, use Xapian::major_version() instead.

XAPIAN_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT Xapian::XAPIAN_DEPRECATED ( const char *  xapian_version_string()  ) 

For compatibility with Xapian 0.9.5 and earlier.

Deprecated:
This function is now deprecated, use Xapian::version_string() instead.


Variable Documentation

const valueno Xapian::BAD_VALUENO = static_cast<valueno>(-1)

Reserved value to indicate "no valueno".

const int Xapian::DB_CREATE = 2

Create a new database; fail if db exists.

const int Xapian::DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN = 1

Open for read/write; create if no db exists.

const int Xapian::DB_CREATE_OR_OVERWRITE = 3

Overwrite existing db; create if none exists.

const int Xapian::DB_OPEN = 4

Open for read/write; fail if no db exists.


Documentation for Xapian (version 1.0.10).
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