Xapian discuss - Jun 2011 - Where do I stick the PARTIAL flag in xappy?

I want to be able to do searches with FLAG_PARTIAL and some without. Most
searches without but with the PARTIAL for an autocomplete widget.

I'm using xappy and I can't find where to send the flag when I build up
the query. The docs talk of setting up the database with or without FLAG_PARTIAL
but that's probably not what I want.

Peter

On 10 Jun 2011, at 16:11, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> I want to be able to do searches with FLAG_PARTIAL and some without. Most
searches without but with the PARTIAL for an autocomplete widget.
> 
> I'm using xappy and I can't find where to send the flag when I
build up the query.

I don't believe this is currently possible with xappy; FLAG_PARTIAL and
friends are provided to the parse_query() method on QueryParser, which xappy
hides away. You can probably hack something by fiddling with
"constants" in xappy.searchconnection.SearchConnection:

xappy.searchconnection.SearchConnection._qp_flags_base |=
xapian.QueryPasrser.FLAG_PARTIAL

or something; that's pretty evil though :-)

Richard may be able to comment further.
>  The docs talk of setting up the database with or without FLAG_PARTIAL but
that's probably not what I want.
Don't know where you're seeing that; I can't find FLAG_PARTIAL in
the xappy source code at all, or in the docs.

J

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