Class: Finder

Inherits:
Object show all
Defined in:
lib/picolena/templates/app/models/finder.rb

Overview

Finder is the class that is in charge to ensure that an index is instantiated and that the raw query is converted into a Ferret::Query. It then launches a search and returns found documents with corresponding matching scores.

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(raw_query, sort_by = 'relevance', page = 1, results_per_page = Picolena::ResultsPerPage) ⇒ Finder

Instantiates a new Finder extracts a Ferret::Query from plain text raw query ensures that an Index has been instantiated reloads the index if needed prepares matching_documents pagination and ensures that the index contains at least one document.



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# File 'lib/picolena/templates/app/models/finder.rb', line 18

def initialize(raw_query,sort_by='relevance', page=1,results_per_page=Picolena::ResultsPerPage)
  @query = Query.extract_from(raw_query)
  @raw_query= raw_query
  Indexer.ensure_index_existence
  reload_index! if should_be_reloaded?
  @per_page=results_per_page
  @offset=(page.to_i-1)*results_per_page
  @sort_by=sort_by
  index_should_have_documents
end

Instance Attribute Details

#queryObject (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute query.



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# File 'lib/picolena/templates/app/models/finder.rb', line 5

def query
  @query
end

Instance Method Details

#execute!Object

Launches the search and writes correspondings

@matching_documents
@total_hits
@time_needed

If a document is found in the index but not on the filesystem, it doesn’t appear on the @matching_documents list.



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# File 'lib/picolena/templates/app/models/finder.rb', line 36

def execute!
  @matching_documents=[]
  start=Time.now
    @total_hits = index.search_each(query, :limit => @per_page, :offset=>@offset, :sort => (sort_by_date if @sort_by=='date')){|index_id, score|
      begin
        found_doc=Document.new(index[index_id][:complete_path])
        found_doc.matching_content=index.highlight(query, index_id,
                                                   :field => :content, :excerpt_length => 80,
                                                   :pre_tag => "<<", :post_tag => ">>"
        )
        found_doc.score=score
        @matching_documents<<found_doc
      rescue Errno::ENOENT
        #"File has been moved/deleted!"
      end
    }
    @executed=true
  @time_needed=Time.now-start
end

#executed?Boolean

Returns true if it has been executed.

Returns:

  • (Boolean)


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# File 'lib/picolena/templates/app/models/finder.rb', line 57

def executed?
  @executed
end

#indexObject

No need to instantiate a new index for every search, so it gets cached.



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# File 'lib/picolena/templates/app/models/finder.rb', line 8

def index
  @@index ||= Indexer.index 
end