Re: Unified browse and search interface as GSoC 2015

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Ian McEwen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The search server has a variety of fields, documented at
> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Indexed_Search_Syntax and supports the
> general lucene query parser syntax, documented at:
>
>
> https://lucene.apache.org/core/4_0_0/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package-summary.html#package_description
>
> What you're asking for here is problematic because it involves an
> initial wildcard on the date (which is not allowed), but you can do it
> with a regular expression search, e.g.:
>
>
> https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=begin%3A%2F.*%3F-01-.*%2F&type=artist&limit=25&method=advanced
>
> ... which is not exactly what you asked for, specifically that's artists
> whose begin date's month is January, but I think that's what you meant
> :)
>

Yes, the regular expression search does not really seem to be the exact
thing I expect since I am trying to get the results by querying a date
range. Anyway thanks for the information :)


>
> I believe the search does not properly handle dates without years, as
> well. But hopefully that answers your question relatively
> satisfactorily.
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:45:18AM +0530, Thanuditha Ruchiranga wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to add some support for year agnostic entries like "artists
> > born between 1st of January and 1st of February" when browsing artists
> > under the born/founded sub category in the mockup
> > <http://musicbrainzexploremockup-ruchiranga.rhcloud.com/> I built. I
> looked
> > for a supported syntax for that and found no luck in finding any in the
> > links
> > https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Version_2/Search
> > and
> > https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Search_Server.
> >
> > Does the search server support that kind of queries? if so is there any
> > documentation i can refer to?
>
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Thanks
Ruchiranga

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