Xapian::Document Class Reference

A handle representing a document in a Xapian database. More...

`#include <document.h>`

## Public Member Functions

| Document (const Document &other)
| Copying is allowed.
void | operator= (const Document &other)
| Assignment is allowed.
| Document ()
| Make a new empty Document.
| ~Document ()
| Destructor.
std::string | get_value (Xapian::valueno slot) const
| Get value by number.
void | add_value (Xapian::valueno slot, const std::string &value)
| Add a new value.
void | remove_value (Xapian::valueno slot)
| Remove any value with the given number.
void | clear_values ()
| Remove all values associated with the document.
std::string | get_data () const
| Get data stored in the document.
void | set_data (const std::string &data)
| Set data stored in the document.
void | add_posting (const std::string &tname, Xapian::termpos tpos, Xapian::termcount wdfinc=1)
| Add an occurrence of a term at a particular position.
void | add_term (const std::string &tname, Xapian::termcount wdfinc=1)
| Add a term to the document, without positional information.
void | add_boolean_term (const std::string &term)
| Add a boolean filter term to the document.
void | remove_posting (const std::string &tname, Xapian::termpos tpos, Xapian::termcount wdfdec=1)
| Remove a posting of a term from the document.
Xapian::termpos | remove_postings (const std::string &term, Xapian::termpos term_pos_first, Xapian::termpos term_pos_last, Xapian::termcount wdf_dec=1)
| Remove a range of postings for a term.
void | remove_term (const std::string &tname)
| Remove a term and all postings associated with it.
void | clear_terms ()
| Remove all terms (and postings) from the document.
Xapian::termcount | termlist_count () const
| The length of the termlist - i.e.
TermIterator | termlist_begin () const
| Start iterating the terms in this document.
TermIterator | termlist_end () const
| Equivalent end iterator for termlist_begin().
Xapian::termcount | values_count () const
| Count the values in this document.
ValueIterator | values_begin () const
| Iterator for the values in this document.
ValueIterator | values_end () const
| Equivalent end iterator for values_begin().
docid | get_docid () const
| Get the document id which is associated with this document (if any).
std::string | serialise () const
| Serialise document into a string.
std::string | get_description () const
| Return a string describing this object.

## Static Public Member Functions

static Document | unserialise (const std::string &serialised)
| Unserialise a document from a string produced by serialise().

## Detailed Description

A handle representing a document in a Xapian database.

The Document class fetches information from the database lazily. Usually this behaviour isn't visible to users (except for the speed benefits), but if the document in the database is modified or deleted, then preexisting Document objects may return the old or new versions of data (or throw Xapian::DocNotFoundError in the case of deletion).

Since Database objects work on a snapshot of the database's state, the situation above can only happen with a WritableDatabase object, or if you call Database::reopen() on a Database object.

We recommend you avoid designs where this behaviour is an issue, but if you need a way to make a non-lazy version of a Document object, you can do this like so:

    doc = Xapian::Document::unserialise(doc.serialise());

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

## Document()

Xapian::Document::Document | ( | const Document & | other | ) |

Copying is allowed.

The internals are reference counted, so copying is cheap.

Parameters

  other | The object to copy.

## Member Function Documentation

## add_boolean_term()

void Xapian::Document::add_boolean_term | ( | const std::string & | term | ) |

inline

Add a boolean filter term to the document.

This method adds term to the document with wdf of 0 - this is generally what you want for a term used for boolean filtering as the wdf of such terms is ignored, and it doesn't make sense for them to contribute to the document's length.

If the specified term already indexes this document, this method has no effect.

It is exactly the same as add_term(term, 0).

This method was added in Xapian 1.0.18.

Parameters

  term | The term to add.

## add_posting()

void Xapian::Document::add_posting | ( | const std::string & | tname,
|  | Xapian::termpos | tpos,
|  | Xapian::termcount | wdfinc = `1`
| ) |  |

Add an occurrence of a term at a particular position.

Multiple occurrences of the term at the same position are represented only once in the positional information, but do increase the wdf.

If the term is not already in the document, it will be added to it.

Parameters

  tname | The name of the term.
  tpos | The position of the term.
  wdfinc | The increment that will be applied to the wdf for this term.

## add_term()

void Xapian::Document::add_term | ( | const std::string & | tname,
|  | Xapian::termcount | wdfinc = `1`
| ) |  |

Add a term to the document, without positional information.

Any existing positional information for the term will be left unmodified.

Parameters

  tname | The name of the term.
  wdfinc | The increment that will be applied to the wdf for this term (default: 1).

## add_value()

void Xapian::Document::add_value | ( | Xapian::valueno | slot,
|  | const std::string & | value
| ) |  |

Add a new value.

The new value will replace any existing value with the same number (or if the new value is empty, it will remove any existing value with the same number).

Parameters

  slot | The value slot to add the value in.
  value | The value to set.

## get_data()

std::string Xapian::Document::get_data | ( |  | ) | const

Get data stored in the document.

This is potentially a relatively expensive operation, and shouldn't normally be used during the match (e.g. in a PostingSource or match decider functor. Put data for use by match deciders in a value instead.

## get_docid()

docid Xapian::Document::get_docid | ( |  | ) | const

Get the document id which is associated with this document (if any).

NB If multiple databases are being searched together, then this will be the document id in the individual database, not the merged database!

Returns
  If this document came from a database, return the document id in that database. Otherwise, return 0 (in Xapian 1.0.22/1.2.4 or later; prior to this the returned value was uninitialised).

## get_value()

std::string Xapian::Document::get_value | ( | Xapian::valueno | slot | ) | const

Get value by number.

Returns an empty string if no value with the given number is present in the document.

Parameters

  slot | The number of the value.

## operator=()

void Xapian::Document::operator= | ( | const Document & | other | ) |

Assignment is allowed.

The internals are reference counted, so assignment is cheap.

Parameters

  other | The object to copy.

## remove_posting()

void Xapian::Document::remove_posting | ( | const std::string & | tname,
|  | Xapian::termpos | tpos,
|  | Xapian::termcount | wdfdec = `1`
| ) |  |

Remove a posting of a term from the document.

Note that the term will still index the document even if all occurrences are removed. To remove a term from a document completely, use remove_term().

Parameters

  tname | The name of the term.
  tpos | The position of the term.
  wdfdec | The decrement that will be applied to the wdf when removing this posting. The wdf will not go below the value of 0.

Exceptions

  Xapian::InvalidArgumentError | will be thrown if the term is not at the position specified in the position list for this term in this document.
  Xapian::InvalidArgumentError | will be thrown if the term is not in the document

## remove_postings()

Xapian::termpos Xapian::Document::remove_postings | ( | const std::string & | term,
|  | Xapian::termpos | term_pos_first,
|  | Xapian::termpos | term_pos_last,
|  | Xapian::termcount | wdf_dec = `1`
| ) |  |

Remove a range of postings for a term.

Any instances of the term at positions >= term_pos_first and <= term_pos_last will be removed, and the wdf reduced by wdf_dec for each instance removed (the wdf will not ever go below zero though).

It's OK if the term doesn't occur in the range of positions specified (unlike remove_posting()). And if term_pos_first > term_pos_last, this method does nothing.

Returns
  The number of postings removed.

Exceptions

  Xapian::InvalidArgumentError | will be thrown if the term is not in the document

Since
  Added in Xapian 1.4.8.

## remove_term()

void Xapian::Document::remove_term | ( | const std::string & | tname | ) |

Remove a term and all postings associated with it.

Parameters

  tname | The name of the term.

Exceptions

  Xapian::InvalidArgumentError | will be thrown if the term is not in the document

## serialise()

std::string Xapian::Document::serialise | ( |  | ) | const

Serialise document into a string.

The document representation may change between Xapian releases: even between minor versions. However, it is guaranteed not to change if the remote database protocol has not changed between releases.

## set_data()

void Xapian::Document::set_data | ( | const std::string & | data | ) |

Set data stored in the document.

This is an opaque blob as far as Xapian is concerned - it's up to you to impose whatever structure you want on it. If you want to store structured data, consider using something like protocol buffers.

Parameters

  data | The data to store.

## termlist_begin()

TermIterator Xapian::Document::termlist_begin | ( |  | ) | const

Start iterating the terms in this document.

The terms are returned in ascending string order (by byte value).

Note that if the Document object came from a sharded database then the TermIterator returned by this method only knows about the shard the document came from so calling get_termfreq() on it will give you the term frequency in that shard rather than in the combined database.

## termlist_count()

Xapian::termcount Xapian::Document::termlist_count | ( |  | ) | const

The length of the termlist - i.e.

the number of different terms which index this document.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- xapian/document.h