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Xapian::Database(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Xapian::Database(3)

Search::Xapian::Database - Search database object

This class represents a Xapian database for searching. See Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase for an object suitable for indexing. To perform searches, this class works with the Search::Xapian::Query object.

new <database>
Class constructor. Can either take a path to an existing database or another database class as the first parameter
clone
Return a clone of this class.
add_database
Add an existing database (or group of databases) to those accessed by this object.
reopen
This re-opens the database(s) to the latest available version(s). It can be used either to make sure the latest results are returned, or to recover from a Xapian::DatabaseModifiedError.
close
Close the database. This also implies a commit() unless a transaction is in progress.
enquire [<query>]
Returns a new Search::Xapian::Enquire object. Any extra parameters are passed to set_query.
get_doccount
Returns the number of document indexed in this database.
get_lastdocid
Returns the id of the last used document.
get_doclength <doc_id>
Returns the length of a given document.
get_document <doc_id>
Returns a Search::Xapian::Document object for the given document.
get_avlength
Get the average length of the documents in the database.
get_termfreq <term>
Get the number of documents in the database indexed by a given term.
term_exists <term>
returns true if this term exists in the database, or false otherwise.
get_description
return a description of this object.
get_spelling_suggestion
returns a suggested spelling correction.
allterms_begin [<prefix>]
Returns a Search::Xapian::TermIterator iterating over the termlist for the the entire database. If the optional prefix argument is non-empty, only terms starting with that string are returned.
allterms_end [<prefix>]
Returns a Search::Xapian::TermIterator pointing to the end of the termlist corresponding to allterms_begin.
termlist_begin <docid>
Returns a Search::Xapian::TermIterator pointing to the start of the termlist for a given document.
termlist_end <docid>
Returns a Search::Xapian::TermIterator pointing to the end of the termlist for a given document.
positionlist_begin <docid> <term>
Returns a Search::Xapian::PositionIterator pointing to the start of the position list for a given term in the given document.
positionlist_end <docid> <term>
Returns a Search::Xapian::PositionIterator pointing to the end of the position list for a given term in the given document.
postlist_begin <term>
Returns a Search::Xapian::PostingIterator pointing to the start of the posting list for a given term.
postlist_end <term>
Returns a Search::Xapian::PostingIterator pointing to the end of the posting list for a given term.
keep_alive
Send a "keep-alive" to remote databases to stop them timing out.
get_collection_freq <term>
Get the number of elements indexed by a certain term.

Search::Xapian, Search::Xapian::Enquire, Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase
2018-07-09 perl v5.32.1

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