Pradeep, That makes more sense; if you use a value constraint, the search will do a string comparison, so 100 will not match 100.0. The range constraint gives you type-aware comparisons. So in your case, you'll want to use the range constraint.
--Colleen ________________________________________ From: Pradeep Maddireddy [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 8:50 AM To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion Cc: Colleen Whitney Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Search API numeric field Hi Colleen, The "Price" was a typo in my email I actually used "price". Actually the numeric field in my case is of type decimal, it was having a value of 100.0 The search API worked when I used price:100.0 but failed when I used price:100 But if I use a range constraint both work. Thanks Pradeep Maddireddy On 4/28/10, Colleen Whitney <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pradeep, > > I think the problem is that on your value constraint, you've got the name > "Price", not "price". The case must match. If you make the name "price" > and try the value constraint again, I think you'll get the result you're > looking for. One thing to note: the value query will be a string > comparison (not typed), so in some cases the results will in fact be > different with a value constraint vs. a range constraint. In the example > you've given, either should work. > > --Colleen > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pradeep Maddireddy > [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:59 AM > To: General > Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Search API numeric field > > Hi..! > > In my XML file I have a numeric field "price". When I create a value > constraint for this field as > > <constraint name="Price"> > <value> > <element ns="http://marklogic.com/ls"; name="price"/> > </value> > </constraint> > > and pass it in the options field to Search API and search term as > price:120, > search API doesn't return any result but when I create a range > constraint for the same field as > <constraint name="price"> > <range type="xs:decimal" facet="false"> > <element ns="http://marklogic.com/ls"; name="price"/> > </range> > </constraint> > > and pass the same search term search API returns few results. Is it > mandatory to have a range constraint for a numeric field instead of > value constraint. > > Thanks > Pradeep Maddireddy > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
