Hi,
Sounds very flexible and usefull.
If this _design/fulltextsearch document is not present I guess we default to
index all, and if it later gets made ditch the current index and rebuild.
Btw. Jan thanks for the clarifications, helped a lot.
--Søren
On Saturday 22 March 2008 01:19, Chris Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We should come up with some "schema" (heh) that defines how
> > FT Indexers should behave. I am thinking of a special _design
> > document that sets various configuration variables for the indexer.
> >
> > E.g. the views to use for indexing:
> >
> > {
> > "_id":"_design/fulltextsearch",
> > "_rev":"123",
> > "_fulltext_options": {
> > "views": ["names", "cities"];
> > }
> > }
> >
> > where names and cities were the names of two views. The Indexer
> > then could maintain two separate fulltext indexes based on these
> > views. The HTTP API for querying could look like this:
> >
> > http://server/database/_fulltext/names?query="+Me?er -Meyer"
> >
> > This is not meant as a definitive RFC, but a starting point for
> > discussions. Please chime in :)
>
> Jan,
>
> I like that idea. There's a use for returning the document that
> corresponds to each matching view row, but perhaps someone might want
> to use a view key as an index, and the view row's value as the return
> value. This could be useful as a lightweight way to return document
> summaries on a search results page, with links to the documents
> themselves (without sending the whole of every matching document to
> the client, when the query is made.)
>
> So some way to configure how to return the results would be handy.
> Here's a verbose crack at how one might configure it:
>
> {
> "_id":"_design/fulltextsearch",
> "_rev":"123",
> "_fulltext_options": {
> "views": {
> "names" : {"index":"view-value", "return":"document"},
> "cities": {"index":"view-key", "return":"view-value"}
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> Chris
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