examples/quest.cc

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/* quest.cc - Command line search tool using Xapian::QueryParser.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2004,2005,2006,2007,2008 Olly Betts
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
 * License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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 */

#include <config.h>

#include <xapian.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <iostream>

#include "gnu_getopt.h"

using namespace std;

#define PROG_NAME "quest"
#define PROG_DESC "Xapian command line search tool"

// Stopwords:
static const char * sw[] = {
    "a", "about", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at",
    "be", "by",
    "en",
    "for", "from",
    "how",
    "i", "in", "is", "it",
    "of", "on", "or",
    "that", "the", "this", "to",
    "was", "what", "when", "where", "which", "who", "why", "will", "with"
};

static void show_usage() {
    cout << "Usage: "PROG_NAME" [OPTIONS] 'QUERY'\n"
"NB: QUERY should be quoted to protect it from the shell.\n\n"
"Options:\n"
"  -d, --db=DIRECTORY  database to search (multiple databases may be specified)\n"
"  -m, --msize=MSIZE   maximum number of matches to return\n"
"  -s, --stemmer=LANG  set the stemming language, the default is 'english'\n"
"                      (pass 'none' to disable stemming)\n"
"  -h, --help          display this help and exit\n"
"  -v, --version       output version information and exit\n";
}

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    const char * opts = "d:m:s:hv";
    static const struct option long_opts[] = {
        { "db",         required_argument, 0, 'd' },
        { "msize",      required_argument, 0, 'm' },
        { "stemmer",    required_argument, 0, 's' },
        { "help",       no_argument, 0, 'h' },
        { "version",    no_argument, 0, 'v' },
        { NULL,         0, 0, 0}
    };

    Xapian::SimpleStopper mystopper(sw, sw + sizeof(sw) / sizeof(sw[0]));
    Xapian::Stem stemmer("english");
    int msize = 10;

    bool have_database = false;

    try {
        Xapian::Database db;

        int c;
        while ((c = gnu_getopt_long(argc, argv, opts, long_opts, 0)) != -1) {
            switch (c) {
                case 'm':
                    msize = atoi(optarg);
                    break;
                case 'd':
                    db.add_database(Xapian::Database(optarg));
                    have_database = true;
                    break;
                case 's':
                    try {
                        stemmer = Xapian::Stem(optarg);
                    } catch (const Xapian::Error &) {
                        cerr << "Unknown stemming language '" << optarg
                             << "'.\n"
                                "Available language names are: "
                             << Xapian::Stem::get_available_languages() << endl;
                        exit(1);
                    }
                    break;
                case 'v':
                    cout << PROG_NAME" - "PACKAGE_STRING << endl;
                    exit(0);
                case 'h':
                    cout << PROG_NAME" - "PROG_DESC"\n\n";
                    show_usage();
                    exit(0);
                case ':': // missing parameter
                case '?': // unknown option
                    show_usage();
                    exit(1);
            }
        }

        if (!have_database || argc - optind != 1) {
            show_usage();
            exit(1);
        }

        Xapian::QueryParser parser;
        parser.set_database(db);
        parser.set_default_op(Xapian::Query::OP_OR);
        parser.set_stemmer(stemmer);
        parser.set_stemming_strategy(Xapian::QueryParser::STEM_SOME);
        parser.set_stopper(&mystopper);

        Xapian::Query query = parser.parse_query(argv[optind]);
        cout << "Query: " << query.get_description() << endl;

        Xapian::Enquire enquire(db);
        enquire.set_query(query);

        Xapian::MSet mset = enquire.get_mset(0, msize);

        cout << "MSet:" << endl;
        for (Xapian::MSetIterator i = mset.begin(); i != mset.end(); i++) {
            Xapian::Document doc = i.get_document();
            string data = doc.get_data();
            cout << *i << " [" << i.get_percent() << "%]\n" << data << "\n";
        }
        cout << flush;
    } catch (const Xapian::QueryParserError & e) {
        cout << "Couldn't parse query: " << e.get_msg() << endl;
        exit(1);
    } catch (const Xapian::Error & err) {
        cout << err.get_description() << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
}

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