Re: command line syntax when searching for multiple

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Cas Tuyn wrote:

> Brad,
>
>> why aren't you using the Swish::API perl module for this? It would make
>> the issue much easier to debug IMHO.
>
> Because we use 2.4.3 and were scared away from 2.4.4 by all the
> messages last week. Swish-e API says:
>   DEPENDENCIES
>   You must have installed Swish-e version 2.4 before building this module.
> I also noticed API's for 2.4.3 but it looks like a full rewrite,
> instead of just adding a few search fields.
>

i wouldn't let the rewrite thing scare you, i mean, the entire thing would 
be maybe 10 lines.

>> swish-e -w author=$author costcenter=$costcenter -f blah.index
>
> I'll try it without the \" around the meta fields, but in the
> documentation I read that it then literary searches for the words
> author=cas instead of searching for "cas" in the author field only.
> And these quotes do work with author.
>
>> it really should work, our index has about 30 custom metanames and we
>> have no issue with searching them.
>
> I will have only 6 or so.
>
>> have you also done swish-e -T INDEX_METANAMES to confirm that both are
>> available?
>
> I just did and notice my custom fields "costc, sector, and ext" are
> present twice, is that OK? For the record, I want to display "rank,
> title, description, author, url" and want to search on "swishdefault,
> author, title, costcenter, sector, extension, lastmodified". The
> output was:

yeah, that's ok. one is a property listing and one is the meta itself.

looks like, if the command line i suggested doesn't help, this is one for 
Peter or Bill... good luck.



>
> -----> METANAMES for /web/bin/swish-e-2.4.3/qasindexfiles/docs.index
> -----> <-----
>
>        swishdefault : id= 1 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  0
>
>       swishreccount : id= 2 type=42  META_INTERNAL META_PROP:NUMBER
>
>           swishrank : id= 3 type=42  META_INTERNAL META_PROP:NUMBER
>
>        swishfilenum : id= 4 type=42  META_INTERNAL META_PROP:NUMBER
>
>         swishdbfile : id= 5 type=38  META_INTERNAL
> META_PROP:STRING(case:compare) SortKeyLen: 100
>
>        swishdocpath : id= 6 type= 6  META_PROP:STRING(case:compare)
> SortKeyLen: 100  *presorted*
>
>          swishtitle : id= 7 type=70  META_PROP:STRING(case:ignore)
> SortKeyLen: 100  *presorted*
>
>        swishdocsize : id= 8 type=10  META_PROP:NUMBER *presorted*
>
>   swishlastmodified : id= 9 type=18  META_PROP:DATE *presorted*
>
>               costc : id=10 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  0
>
>              sector : id=11 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  0
>
>                 ext : id=12 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  0
>
>            headings : id=13 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  6
>
>         description : id=14 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  8
>
>              author : id=15 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  5
>
>                  h1 : id=16 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  0 [Alias
> for headings (13)]
>
>                  h2 : id=17 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  0 [Alias
> for headings (13)]
>
>                  h3 : id=18 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias=  0 [Alias
> for headings (13)]
>
>         description : id=19 type=70  META_PROP:STRING(case:ignore)
> SortKeyLen: 100  *presorted*
>
>              author : id=20 type=70  META_PROP:STRING(case:ignore)
> SortKeyLen: 100  *presorted*
>
>               costc : id=21 type=70  META_PROP:STRING(case:ignore)
> SortKeyLen: 100  *presorted*
>
>              sector : id=22 type=70  META_PROP:STRING(case:ignore)
> SortKeyLen: 100  *presorted*
>
>                 ext : id=23 type=70  META_PROP:STRING(case:ignore)
> SortKeyLen: 100  *presorted*
>
>            headings : id=24 type= 6  META_PROP:STRING(case:compare)
> SortKeyLen: 100  *presorted*
>
>               title : id=25 type= 1  META_INDEX  Rank Bias= 10
>
>
> Regards,
> Cas
>
>

Brad
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