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SearchEngine Class Reference

Contain a class for special pages. More...

Inherited by SearchDatabase, and SearchEngineDummy.

Public Member Functions

 augmentSearchResults (ISearchResultSet $resultSet)
 Augment search results with extra data.
 
 completionSearch ( $search)
 Perform a completion search.
 
 completionSearchWithVariants ( $search)
 Perform a completion search with variants.
 
 defaultPrefixSearch ( $search)
 Simple prefix search for subpages.
 
 delete ( $id, $title)
 Delete an indexed page Title should be pre-processed.
 
 extractTitles (SearchSuggestionSet $completionResults)
 Extract titles from completion results.
 
 getFeatureData ( $feature)
 Way to retrieve custom data set by setFeatureData or by the engine itself.
 
 getNearMatcher (Config $config)
 Get service class to finding near matches.
 
 getProfiles ( $profileType, ?User $user=null)
 Get a list of supported profiles.
 
 getSearchIndexFields ()
 Get fields for search index.
 
 getSort ()
 Get the sort direction of the search results.
 
 getTextFromContent (Title $t, ?Content $c=null)
 Get the raw text for updating the index from a content object Nicer search backends could possibly do something cooler than just returning raw text.
 
 getValidSorts ()
 Get the valid sort directions.
 
 legalSearchChars ( $type=self::CHARS_ALL)
 Get chars legal for search.
 
 makeSearchFieldMapping ( $name, $type)
 Create a search field definition.
 
 normalizeText ( $string)
 When overridden in derived class, performs database-specific conversions on text to be used for searching or updating search index.
 
 replacePrefixes ( $query)
 Parse some common prefixes: all (search everything) or namespace names and set the list of namespaces of this class accordingly.
 
 searchArchiveTitle ( $term)
 Perform a title search in the article archive.
 
 searchText ( $term)
 Perform a full text search query and return a result set.
 
 searchTitle ( $term)
 Perform a title-only search query and return a result set.
 
 setFeatureData ( $feature, $data)
 Way to pass custom data for engines.
 
 setHookContainer (HookContainer $hookContainer)
 
 setLimitOffset ( $limit, $offset=0)
 Set the maximum number of results to return and how many to skip before returning the first.
 
 setNamespaces ( $namespaces)
 Set which namespaces the search should include.
 
 setShowSuggestion ( $showSuggestion)
 Set whether the searcher should try to build a suggestion.
 
 setSort ( $sort)
 Set the sort direction of the search results.
 
 supports ( $feature)
 
 textAlreadyUpdatedForIndex ()
 If an implementation of SearchEngine handles all of its own text processing in getTextFromContent() and doesn't require SearchUpdate::updateText()'s rather silly handling, it should return true here instead.
 
 update ( $id, $title, $text)
 Create or update the search index record for the given page.
 
 updateTitle ( $id, $title)
 Update a search index record's title only.
 

Static Public Member Functions

static parseNamespacePrefixes ( $query, $withAllKeyword=true, $withPrefixSearchExtractNamespaceHook=false)
 Parse some common prefixes: all (search everything) or namespace names.
 
static userHighlightPrefs ()
 Find snippet highlight settings for all users.
 

Public Attributes

int[] null $namespaces = [ NS_MAIN ]
 
string $prefix = ''
 
const COMPLETION_PROFILE_TYPE = 'completionSearchProfile'
 Profile type for completionSearch.
 
const DEFAULT_SORT = 'relevance'
 
const FT_QUERY_INDEP_PROFILE_TYPE = 'fulltextQueryIndepProfile'
 Profile type for query independent ranking features.
 

Protected Member Functions

 completionSearchBackend ( $search)
 Perform a completion search.
 
 completionSearchBackendOverfetch ( $search)
 Perform an overfetch of completion search results.
 
 doSearchArchiveTitle ( $term)
 Perform a title search in the article archive.
 
 doSearchText ( $term)
 Perform a full text search query and return a result set.
 
 doSearchTitle ( $term)
 Perform a title-only search query and return a result set.
 
 getHookContainer ()
 Get a HookContainer, for running extension hooks or for hook metadata.
 
 getHookRunner ()
 Get a HookRunner for running core hooks.
 
 normalizeNamespaces ( $search)
 Makes search simple string if it was namespaced.
 
 processCompletionResults ( $search, SearchSuggestionSet $suggestions)
 Process completion search results.
 
 simplePrefixSearch ( $search)
 Call out to simple search backend.
 

Static Protected Member Functions

static defaultNearMatcher ()
 Get near matcher for default SearchEngine.
 

Protected Attributes

array $features = []
 Feature values.
 
int $limit = 10
 
int $offset = 0
 
string[] $searchTerms = []
 
bool $showSuggestion = true
 
const CHARS_ALL = 1
 Integer flag for legalSearchChars: includes all chars allowed in a search query.
 
const CHARS_NO_SYNTAX = 2
 Integer flag for legalSearchChars: includes all chars allowed in a search term.
 

Detailed Description

Contain a class for special pages.

Stability: stable
to extend

Definition at line 44 of file SearchEngine.php.

Member Function Documentation

◆ augmentSearchResults()

SearchEngine::augmentSearchResults ( ISearchResultSet $resultSet)

Augment search results with extra data.

Definition at line 847 of file SearchEngine.php.

References getHookRunner(), and ISearchResultSet\setAugmentedData().

◆ completionSearch()

SearchEngine::completionSearch ( $search)

Perform a completion search.

Parameters
string$search
Returns
SearchSuggestionSet

Definition at line 602 of file SearchEngine.php.

References completionSearchBackendOverfetch(), SearchSuggestionSet\emptySuggestionSet(), normalizeNamespaces(), and processCompletionResults().

Referenced by completionSearchWithVariants().

◆ completionSearchBackend()

SearchEngine::completionSearchBackend ( $search)
protected

Perform a completion search.

Does not resolve namespaces and does not check variants. Search engine implementations may want to override this function.

Stability: stable
to override
Parameters
string$search
Returns
SearchSuggestionSet

Definition at line 577 of file SearchEngine.php.

References SearchSuggestionSet\fromStrings(), SearchSuggestionSet\fromTitles(), getHookRunner(), NS_SPECIAL, and simplePrefixSearch().

Referenced by completionSearchBackendOverfetch().

◆ completionSearchBackendOverfetch()

SearchEngine::completionSearchBackendOverfetch ( $search)
protected

Perform an overfetch of completion search results.

This allows determining if another page of results is available.

Parameters
string$search
Returns
SearchSuggestionSet

Definition at line 558 of file SearchEngine.php.

References completionSearchBackend().

Referenced by completionSearch(), and completionSearchWithVariants().

◆ completionSearchWithVariants()

SearchEngine::completionSearchWithVariants ( $search)

Perform a completion search with variants.

Stability: stable
to override
Parameters
string$search
Returns
SearchSuggestionSet

Definition at line 618 of file SearchEngine.php.

References completionSearch(), completionSearchBackendOverfetch(), SearchSuggestionSet\emptySuggestionSet(), normalizeNamespaces(), processCompletionResults(), and setLimitOffset().

◆ defaultNearMatcher()

static SearchEngine::defaultNearMatcher ( )
staticprotected

Get near matcher for default SearchEngine.

Returns
TitleMatcher
Deprecated
since 1.40, MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getTitleMatcher()

Definition at line 282 of file SearchEngine.php.

References wfDeprecated().

◆ defaultPrefixSearch()

SearchEngine::defaultPrefixSearch ( $search)

Simple prefix search for subpages.

Parameters
string$search
Returns
Title[]

Definition at line 744 of file SearchEngine.php.

References normalizeNamespaces(), and simplePrefixSearch().

◆ delete()

SearchEngine::delete ( $id,
$title )

Delete an indexed page Title should be pre-processed.

STUB

Parameters
int$idPage id that was deleted
string$titleTitle of page that was deleted

Reimplemented in SearchMySQL.

Definition at line 505 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ doSearchArchiveTitle()

SearchEngine::doSearchArchiveTitle ( $term)
protected

Perform a title search in the article archive.

Stability: stable
to override
Parameters
string$termRaw search term
Returns
Status
Since
1.32

Definition at line 147 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by searchArchiveTitle().

◆ doSearchText()

SearchEngine::doSearchText ( $term)
protected

Perform a full text search query and return a result set.

Stability: stable
to override
Parameters
string$termRaw search term
Returns
ISearchResultSet|Status|null
Since
1.32

Reimplemented in SearchDatabase.

Definition at line 116 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by searchText().

◆ doSearchTitle()

SearchEngine::doSearchTitle ( $term)
protected

Perform a title-only search query and return a result set.

Stability: stable
to override
Parameters
string$termRaw search term
Returns
ISearchResultSet|null
Since
1.32

Reimplemented in SearchDatabase.

Definition at line 177 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by searchTitle().

◆ extractTitles()

SearchEngine::extractTitles ( SearchSuggestionSet $completionResults)

Extract titles from completion results.

Parameters
SearchSuggestionSet$completionResults
Returns
Title[]

Definition at line 657 of file SearchEngine.php.

References SearchSuggestion\getSuggestedTitle(), and SearchSuggestionSet\map().

◆ getFeatureData()

SearchEngine::getFeatureData ( $feature)

Way to retrieve custom data set by setFeatureData or by the engine itself.

Since
1.29
Parameters
string$featurefeature name
Returns
mixed the feature value or null if unset

Definition at line 249 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ getHookContainer()

SearchEngine::getHookContainer ( )
protected

Get a HookContainer, for running extension hooks or for hook metadata.

Since
1.35
Returns
HookContainer

Definition at line 892 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ getHookRunner()

SearchEngine::getHookRunner ( )
protected

Get a HookRunner for running core hooks.

Access: internal
This is for use by core only. Hook interfaces may be removed without notice.
Since
1.35
Returns
HookRunner

Definition at line 910 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by augmentSearchResults(), completionSearchBackend(), and getSearchIndexFields().

◆ getNearMatcher()

SearchEngine::getNearMatcher ( Config $config)

Get service class to finding near matches.

Returns
TitleMatcher
Deprecated
since 1.40, use MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getTitleMatcher()

Definition at line 272 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ getProfiles()

SearchEngine::getProfiles ( $profileType,
?User $user = null )

Get a list of supported profiles.

Some search engine implementations may expose specific profiles to fine-tune its behaviors. The profile can be passed as a feature data with setFeatureData( $profileType, $profileName ) The array returned by this function contains the following keys:

  • name: the profile name to use with setFeatureData
  • desc-message: the i18n description
  • default: set to true if this profile is the default
Since
1.28
Stability: stable
to override
Parameters
string$profileTypethe type of profiles
User | null$userthe user requesting the list of profiles
Returns
array|null the list of profiles or null if none available

Definition at line 783 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ getSearchIndexFields()

SearchEngine::getSearchIndexFields ( )

Get fields for search index.

Since
1.28
Returns
SearchIndexField[] Index field definitions for all content handlers

Definition at line 806 of file SearchEngine.php.

References getHookRunner().

◆ getSort()

SearchEngine::getSort ( )

Get the sort direction of the search results.

Since
1.25
Returns
string

Definition at line 373 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ getTextFromContent()

SearchEngine::getTextFromContent ( Title $t,
?Content $c = null )

Get the raw text for updating the index from a content object Nicer search backends could possibly do something cooler than just returning raw text.

Todo
This isn't ideal, we'd really like to have content-specific handling here
Parameters
Title$tTitle we're indexing
Content | null$cContent of the page to index
Returns
string
Deprecated
since 1.34 use Content::getTextForSearchIndex directly

Definition at line 520 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ getValidSorts()

SearchEngine::getValidSorts ( )

Get the valid sort directions.

All search engines support 'relevance' but others might support more. The default in all implementations must be 'relevance.'

Since
1.25
Stability: stable
to override
Returns
string[] the valid sort directions for setSort

Definition at line 348 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by setSort().

◆ legalSearchChars()

SearchEngine::legalSearchChars ( $type = self::CHARS_ALL)

Get chars legal for search.

Parameters
int$typetype of search chars (see self::CHARS_ALL and self::CHARS_NO_SYNTAX). Defaults to CHARS_ALL
Returns
string

Reimplemented in SearchMySQL, and SearchSqlite.

Definition at line 293 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by SearchDatabase\filter().

◆ makeSearchFieldMapping()

SearchEngine::makeSearchFieldMapping ( $name,
$type )

Create a search field definition.

Specific search engines should override this method to create search fields.

Stability: stable
to override
Parameters
string$name
string$typeOne of the types in SearchIndexField::INDEX_TYPE_*
Returns
SearchIndexField
Since
1.28

Definition at line 797 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Content\ContentHandler\addSearchField(), MediaWiki\Content\ContentHandler\getFieldsForSearchIndex(), MediaWiki\Content\FileContentHandler\getFieldsForSearchIndex(), MediaWiki\Content\TextContentHandler\getFieldsForSearchIndex(), and MediaWiki\Content\WikitextContentHandler\getFieldsForSearchIndex().

◆ normalizeNamespaces()

SearchEngine::normalizeNamespaces ( $search)
protected

Makes search simple string if it was namespaced.

Sets namespaces of the search to namespaces extracted from string.

Parameters
string$search
Returns
string Simplified search string

Definition at line 542 of file SearchEngine.php.

References setNamespaces().

Referenced by completionSearch(), completionSearchWithVariants(), and defaultPrefixSearch().

◆ normalizeText()

SearchEngine::normalizeText ( $string)

When overridden in derived class, performs database-specific conversions on text to be used for searching or updating search index.

Default implementation does nothing (simply returns $string).

Parameters
string$stringString to process
Returns
string

Reimplemented in SearchMySQL.

Definition at line 261 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ parseNamespacePrefixes()

static SearchEngine::parseNamespacePrefixes ( $query,
$withAllKeyword = true,
$withPrefixSearchExtractNamespaceHook = false )
static

Parse some common prefixes: all (search everything) or namespace names.

Parameters
string$query
bool$withAllKeywordactivate support of the "all:" keyword and its translations to activate searching on all namespaces.
bool$withPrefixSearchExtractNamespaceHookcall the PrefixSearchExtractNamespace hook if classic namespace identification did not match.
Returns
false|array false if no namespace was extracted, an array with the parsed query at index 0 and an array of namespaces at index 1 (or null for all namespaces).

Definition at line 403 of file SearchEngine.php.

References NS_MAIN, and wfMessage().

Referenced by SearchDatabase\extractNamespacePrefix().

◆ processCompletionResults()

SearchEngine::processCompletionResults ( $search,
SearchSuggestionSet $suggestions )
protected

◆ replacePrefixes()

SearchEngine::replacePrefixes ( $query)

Parse some common prefixes: all (search everything) or namespace names and set the list of namespaces of this class accordingly.

Deprecated
since 1.32; should be handled internally by the search engine
Parameters
string$query
Returns
string

Definition at line 386 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ searchArchiveTitle()

SearchEngine::searchArchiveTitle ( $term)

Perform a title search in the article archive.

NOTE: these results still should be filtered by matching against PageArchive, permissions checks etc The results returned by this methods are only suggestions and may not end up being shown to the user.

Note
As of 1.32 overriding this function is deprecated. It will be converted to final in 1.34. Override self::doSearchArchiveTitle().
Parameters
string$termRaw search term
Returns
Status
Since
1.29

Definition at line 134 of file SearchEngine.php.

References doSearchArchiveTitle().

◆ searchText()

SearchEngine::searchText ( $term)

Perform a full text search query and return a result set.

If full text searches are not supported or disabled, return null.

Note
As of 1.32 overriding this function is deprecated. It will be converted to final in 1.34. Override self::doSearchText().
Parameters
string$termRaw search term
Returns
ISearchResultSet|Status|null

Definition at line 101 of file SearchEngine.php.

References doSearchText().

◆ searchTitle()

SearchEngine::searchTitle ( $term)

Perform a title-only search query and return a result set.

If title searches are not supported or disabled, return null. STUB

Note
As of 1.32 overriding this function is deprecated. It will be converted to final in 1.34. Override self::doSearchTitle().
Parameters
string$termRaw search term
Returns
ISearchResultSet|null

Definition at line 162 of file SearchEngine.php.

References doSearchTitle().

◆ setFeatureData()

SearchEngine::setFeatureData ( $feature,
$data )

Way to pass custom data for engines.

Since
1.18
Parameters
string$feature
mixed$data

Definition at line 238 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ setHookContainer()

SearchEngine::setHookContainer ( HookContainer $hookContainer)
Since
1.35
Access: internal
Parameters
HookContainer$hookContainer

Definition at line 881 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ setLimitOffset()

SearchEngine::setLimitOffset ( $limit,
$offset = 0 )

Set the maximum number of results to return and how many to skip before returning the first.

Parameters
int$limit
int$offset

Definition at line 304 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by completionSearchWithVariants().

◆ setNamespaces()

SearchEngine::setNamespaces ( $namespaces)

Set which namespaces the search should include.

Give an array of namespace index numbers.

Parameters
int[] | null$namespaces

Definition at line 315 of file SearchEngine.php.

References $namespaces.

Referenced by normalizeNamespaces().

◆ setShowSuggestion()

SearchEngine::setShowSuggestion ( $showSuggestion)

Set whether the searcher should try to build a suggestion.

Note: some searchers don't support building a suggestion in the first place and others don't respect this flag.

Parameters
bool$showSuggestionShould the searcher try to build suggestions

Definition at line 335 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ setSort()

SearchEngine::setSort ( $sort)

Set the sort direction of the search results.

Must be one returned by SearchEngine::getValidSorts()

Since
1.25
Parameters
string$sortsort direction for query result

Definition at line 359 of file SearchEngine.php.

References getValidSorts().

◆ simplePrefixSearch()

SearchEngine::simplePrefixSearch ( $search)
protected

Call out to simple search backend.

Defaults to TitlePrefixSearch.

Parameters
string$search
Returns
Title[]

Definition at line 759 of file SearchEngine.php.

References PrefixSearch\defaultSearchBackend().

Referenced by completionSearchBackend(), and defaultPrefixSearch().

◆ supports()

SearchEngine::supports ( $feature)
Since
1.18
Stability: stable
to override
Parameters
string$feature
Returns
bool

Reimplemented in SearchMySQL.

Definition at line 222 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ textAlreadyUpdatedForIndex()

SearchEngine::textAlreadyUpdatedForIndex ( )

If an implementation of SearchEngine handles all of its own text processing in getTextFromContent() and doesn't require SearchUpdate::updateText()'s rather silly handling, it should return true here instead.

Returns
bool
Deprecated
since 1.34 no longer needed since getTextFromContent is being deprecated

Definition at line 532 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ update()

SearchEngine::update ( $id,
$title,
$text )

Create or update the search index record for the given page.

Title and text should be pre-processed. STUB

Parameters
int$id
string$title
string$text

Reimplemented in SearchMySQL, SearchSqlite, and SearchPostgres.

Definition at line 481 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ updateTitle()

SearchEngine::updateTitle ( $id,
$title )

Update a search index record's title only.

Title should be pre-processed. STUB

Parameters
int$id
string$title

Reimplemented in SearchMySQL, SearchPostgres, and SearchSqlite.

Definition at line 493 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ userHighlightPrefs()

static SearchEngine::userHighlightPrefs ( )
static

Find snippet highlight settings for all users.

Returns
array Contextlines, contextchars
Deprecated
since 1.34; use the SearchHighlighter constants directly
See also
SearchHighlighter::DEFAULT_CONTEXT_CHARS
SearchHighlighter::DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LINES

Definition at line 466 of file SearchEngine.php.

References SearchHighlighter\DEFAULT_CONTEXT_CHARS, and SearchHighlighter\DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LINES.

Member Data Documentation

◆ $features

array SearchEngine::$features = []
protected

Feature values.

Definition at line 71 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ $limit

int SearchEngine::$limit = 10
protected

Definition at line 54 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ $namespaces

int [] null SearchEngine::$namespaces = [ NS_MAIN ]

Definition at line 51 of file SearchEngine.php.

Referenced by setNamespaces().

◆ $offset

int SearchEngine::$offset = 0
protected

Definition at line 57 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ $prefix

string SearchEngine::$prefix = ''

Definition at line 48 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ $searchTerms

string [] SearchEngine::$searchTerms = []
protected
Deprecated
since 1.34

Definition at line 63 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ $showSuggestion

bool SearchEngine::$showSuggestion = true
protected

Definition at line 66 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ CHARS_ALL

const SearchEngine::CHARS_ALL = 1
protected

Integer flag for legalSearchChars: includes all chars allowed in a search query.

Definition at line 86 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ CHARS_NO_SYNTAX

const SearchEngine::CHARS_NO_SYNTAX = 2
protected

Integer flag for legalSearchChars: includes all chars allowed in a search term.

Definition at line 89 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ COMPLETION_PROFILE_TYPE

const SearchEngine::COMPLETION_PROFILE_TYPE = 'completionSearchProfile'

Profile type for completionSearch.

Definition at line 80 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ DEFAULT_SORT

const SearchEngine::DEFAULT_SORT = 'relevance'

Definition at line 45 of file SearchEngine.php.

◆ FT_QUERY_INDEP_PROFILE_TYPE

const SearchEngine::FT_QUERY_INDEP_PROFILE_TYPE = 'fulltextQueryIndepProfile'

Profile type for query independent ranking features.

Definition at line 83 of file SearchEngine.php.


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