examples/simplesearch.cc

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/* Copyright (C) 2007 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.
 *
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 */

#include <xapian.h>

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#include <stdlib.h> // For exit().

using namespace std;

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
try {
    // We require at least two command line arguments.
    if (argc < 3) {
        cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " PATH_TO_DATABASE QUERY" << endl;
        exit(1);
    }

    // Open the database for searching.
    Xapian::Database db(argv[1]);

    // Start an enquire session.
    Xapian::Enquire enquire(db);

    // Combine the rest of the command line arguments with spaces between
    // them, so that simple queries don't have to be quoted at the shell
    // level.
    string query_string(argv[2]);
    argv += 3;
    while (*argv) {
        query_string += ' ';
        query_string += *argv++;
    }

    // Parse the query string to produce a Xapian::Query object.
    Xapian::QueryParser qp;
    Xapian::Stem stemmer("english");
    qp.set_stemmer(stemmer);
    qp.set_database(db);
    qp.set_stemming_strategy(Xapian::QueryParser::STEM_SOME);
    Xapian::Query query = qp.parse_query(query_string);
    cout << "Parsed query is: " << query.get_description() << endl;

    // Find the top 10 results for the query.
    enquire.set_query(query);
    Xapian::MSet matches = enquire.get_mset(0, 10);

    // Display the results.
    cout << matches.get_matches_estimated() << " results found.\n";
    cout << "Matches 1-" << matches.size() << ":\n" << endl;

    for (Xapian::MSetIterator i = matches.begin(); i != matches.end(); ++i) {
        cout << i.get_rank() + 1 << ": " << i.get_percent() << "% docid=" << *i
             << " [" << i.get_document().get_data() << "]\n\n";
    }
} catch (const Xapian::Error &e) {
    cout << e.get_description() << endl;
    exit(1);
}

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