Hi Erik, What's the reason the search doesn't work for folders? I had a use case for that this weekend: I was writing an extension to bookmark all open tabs, and wanted to retrieve a particular folder to store them in.
-Nick On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Erik Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Erik Kay<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:22 AM, disya2<[email protected]> wrote: > >> At bookmarks API doc page I failed to find what is "query" in "search" > >> method. After some research I found that people pass folder names and > >> urls to find something but found no detailed description. Is there a > >> clear definition of that "query"? Can I use regexp, wildcards? How > >> could I write queries for bookmarks/folders only? > > > > Search works for bookmarks only, not folders. "query" is broken up > > into individual "words". If those words appear anywhere in the title > > or URL (as case-insensitive substring matches), then the bookmark will > > match the query. There are no regexps or wildcards. Here are some > > examples: > > > > (1) Foo bar baz - http://www.example.com/hello > > (2) foo quux - http://www.example.com/bar > > (3) bar baz - http://www.google.com/hello > > > > "bar hello" - matches (1) and (3) > > "foo hello" - matches (1) > > "foo example" - matches (1) and (2) > > "foo bar" - matches (1) and (2) > > Apologies, but my examples are incorrect. The phrasing should be > "only if all of the words appear in the title or all of the words > appear in the URL". It doesn't work in combination with one word in > the title and one word in the URL. > > So in my above examples, only the last one would match anything (1). > > Given the above data, let's try a few better examples: > "bar baz" - matches (1) and (2) > "www hello" - matches (1) and (3) > "bar example" - matches (2) > > Erik > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
