Xapian discuss - Dec 2011 - Problems with scriptindex

Hi

I am a beginner with Xapian.
I am trying to use scriptindex but I get some problems :
1) If my script file is empty I have an indexation by default, and I get
two output fields when I am using quest.exe (These fields are caption and
sample)

2) I then tryed to not use an empty script file defining this time my own
fields, but
if I use quest to perform researches these fileds does not appear in the
output.

Here is the file I am using (they are inspired on what I found on the net)

The script file :
url : field boolean=Q unique=Q
title: field=title index=S value=0
author: field index=A value=2
translator: field index=XTRANS value=3
date: field=date date=yyyymmdd index=D value=1
body : indexnopos

The data file :

url='/phil/aristotle-categories-79.txt'
author=Aristotle
translator=E. M. Edghill
date=20041204
body=350 BC
=CATEGORIES
=by Aristotle
=translated by E. M. Edghill
=1
=Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a
=common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for
=each. Thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay claim to
=the name 'animal'; yet these are equivocally so named, for, though*

Thank you by advance for your answers

Stephane

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 11:42:24AM +0100, stephane altazin
wrote:
> I am trying to use scriptindex but I get some problems :
> 1) If my script file is empty I have an indexation by default, and I get
> two output fields when I am using quest.exe (These fields are caption and
> sample)
You don't say what version you're using, but with the current 1.2 branch
(which hasn't changed much since 1.2.7) I just get an empty document if
the index script is empty (which is what I'd expect).

Perhaps you didn't start from a clean database?  You can pass
--overwrite to scriptindex to force it to empty the database first.

On trunk, I've tweaked scriptindex to report an error if no rules were
found in the index script, since the result (adding empty documents to
the database) is clearly not useful.
> 2) I then tryed to not use an empty script file defining this time my
> own fields, but if I use quest to perform researches these fileds does
> not appear in the output.
Works for me:

$ scriptindex tmp.db tmp.script tmp.data
records (added, replaced, deleted) = (1, 0, 0)
$ quest -d tmp.db picture
Parsed Query: Xapian::Query(Zpictur:(pos=1))
MSet:
1 [100%]
author=Aristotle
date=20041204
translator=E. M. Edghill
url='/phil/aristotle-categories-79.txt'

Incidentally, I suspect you don't want those quotes around the URL -
scriptindex doesn't expected quoted values - it'll assume quotes (and
any other characters) are to be handled literally.

Cheers,
    Olly