Syntax¶

The following constructs are recognized by QueryParser.

• Boolean operators 'AND', 'OR', and 'AND NOT'.
• Prepented +plus and -minus, indicating that the labeled entity should be either required or forbidden -- be it a single word, a phrase, or a parenthetical group.
• Logical groups, delimited by parentheses.
• Phrases, delimited by double quotes.
• Field-specific terms, in the form of "fieldname:termtext". (The field specified by fieldname will be used instead of the QueryParser's default fields).

  A field can also be given to a logical group, in which case it is the same as if the field had been prepended onto every term in the group. For example: "foo:(bar baz)" is the same as "foo:bar foo:baz".

new¶

    my $query_parser = KinoSearch1::QueryParser::QueryParser->new(
        analyzer       => $analyzer,       # required
        fields         => [ 'bodytext' ],  # required
        default_boolop => 'AND',           # default: 'OR'
    );

Constructor. Takes hash-style parameters:

• analyzer - An object which subclasses KinoSearch1::Analysis::Analyzer. This must be identical to the Analyzer used at index-time, or the results won't match up.
• fields - the names of the fields which will be searched against. Must be supplied as an arrayref.
• default_field - deprecated. Use "fields" instead.
• default_boolop - two possible values: 'AND' and 'OR'. The default is 'OR', which means: return documents which match any of the query terms. If you want only documents which match all of the query terms, set this to 'AND'.

parse¶

    my $query = $query_parser->parse( $query_string );

Turn a query string into a Query object. Depending on the contents of the query string, the returned object could be any one of several subclasses of KinoSearch1::Search::Query.