Ferret talk - May 2006 - Is there any working way to search multiple indexes?

I''m running from the trunk, and hitting road blocks no matter which way
I
attempt
to search across multiple indexes.

I tried a MultiSearcher, but I can''t pass a string for the search query

ms.search "iraq"
TypeError: wrong argument type String (expected Data)

So I tried creating a QueryParser to pass, but I can''t get the fields
from
the reader
 r.get_field_names
NoMethodError: undefined method `get_field_names'' for
#<Ferret::Index::IndexReader:0x406059dc>

and even if I could, I cant pass any fields to the QueryParser
qp.fields = ["title"]
NoMethodError: undefined method `fields='' for
#<Ferret::QueryParser:0x407db070>

So I tried using the MultiReader, like acts_as_ferret does, but it
won''t
take any arguments
@reader = Index::MultiReader.new(sub_readers)
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)

Is everything I''m trying to do unimplemented in the c version, or am I
just
overlooking something obvious?

thanks,
joshua
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Hi Joshua,

The best place to check how to use the MultiSearcher is the
MultiSearcher unit tests;

    test/unit/search/tc_multi_searcher.rb
    test/unit/search/tc_multi_searcher2.rb

Create a MultiSearcher like this;

    @multi = Ferret::Search::MultiSearcher.new([IndexSearcher.new(dir1),
IndexSearcher.new(dir2)])

You can have as many IndexSearchers as you like. You actually need to
pass a query to both IndexSearcher and MultiSearcher. Strings are not
allowed in Ferret 0.9.1. That may change in future versions. So do
something like this;

  def do_search(query)
    @query_parser ||= Ferret::QueryParser.new([''date'',
''field'',
''cat''], :analyzer => WhiteSpaceAnalyzer.new())
    query = @query_parser.parse(query) if (query.is_a? String)
    return @multi.search(query)
  end

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Dave



On 5/6/06, Joshua Bates <joshuabates at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I''m running from the trunk, and hitting road blocks no matter
which way I
> attempt
> to search across multiple indexes.
>
> I tried a MultiSearcher, but I can''t pass a string for the search
query
>
> ms.search "iraq"
> TypeError: wrong argument type String (expected Data)
>
> So I tried creating a QueryParser to pass, but I can''t get the
fields from
> the reader
>  r.get_field_names
> NoMethodError: undefined method `get_field_names'' for
> #<Ferret::Index::IndexReader:0x406059dc>
>
> and even if I could, I cant pass any fields to the QueryParser
> qp.fields = ["title"]
> NoMethodError: undefined method `fields='' for
> #<Ferret::QueryParser:0x407db070>
>
> So I tried using the MultiReader, like acts_as_ferret does, but it
won''t
> take any arguments
> @reader = Index::MultiReader.new(sub_readers)
> ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
>
> Is everything I''m trying to do unimplemented in the c version, or
am I just
> overlooking something obvious?
>
> thanks,
> joshua
>
>
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