GroupDocs.Search for Java 18.12 Release Notes

Major Features

There are 2 new features in this regular monthly release:

  • Implement blended characters
  • Implement wildcard search

All Changes

KeySummaryCategory
SEARCHNET-803Implement blended charactersNew Feature
SEARCHNET-1781Implement wildcard searchNew Feature

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Implement blended characters

Description

This feature introduces a new class of characters - blended. When indexing, blended characters are interpreted simultaneously as valid letters and as separators.
For example, if the hyphen is marked as a blended character then indexing of term ‘silver-gray’ will result in saving of 3 terms in the index: ‘silver’, ‘gray’, and ‘silver-gray’.

Public API changes

Class CharacterType has been added to com.groupdocs.search package.
Static field byte Separator has been added to com.groupdocs.search**.CharacterType class.
Static field byte Letter has been added to com.groupdocs.search.CharacterType class.
Static field byte Blended has been added to com.groupdocs.search.**CharacterType class.

Method byte get_Item(char) has been added to com.groupdocs.search**.Alphabet**class.
Method void setRange(char[] characters, byte) nas been added to com.groupdocs.search**.Alphabet** class.

Usecases

This example shows how to perform indexing and search with blended characters:

String indexFolder = "c:\\MyIndex";
String documentFolder = "c:\\MyDocuments";
 
// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);
 
// Marking hyphen as blended character
index.getDictionaries().getAlphabet().setRange(new char[] { '-' }, CharacterType.Blended);
 
// Adding documents to index
index.addToIndex(documentFolder);
 
// Searching for word 'silver-gray'
SearchResults results = index.search("silver-gray");
Description

This feature allows performing search of words containing wildcards.
There are two possible forms of a wildcard to use in wildcard search:

  • ? - quotation mark representing one arbitrary character;
  • ?(N~M) - the range of arbitrary characters in an amount from N to M, where N and M must be in the range from 0 to 255.

As well implemented the ability to perform wildcard search using the more flexible object form of the search query.

Public API changes

Class WordPattern has been added to com.groupdocs.search package.
Constructor WordPattern() nas been added to com.groupdocs.search****.WordPattern**** class.
Method appendString(String) nas been added to com.groupdocs.search****.WordPattern**** class.
Method appendCharacter(char) nas been added to com.groupdocs.search****.WordPattern**** class.
Method appendOneCharacterWildcard() nas been added to com.groupdocs.search****.WordPattern**** class.
Method appendZeroOrOneCharacterWildcard() nas been added to com.groupdocs.search****.WordPattern**** class.
Method appendZeroOrMoreCharactersWildcard() nas been added to com.groupdocs.search****.WordPattern**** class.
Method appendOneOrMoreCharactersWildcard() nas been added to com.groupdocs.search****.WordPattern**** class.
Method appendWildcard(int, int) nas been added to com.groupdocs.search****.WordPattern**** class.

Method SearchQuery createWordPatternQuery(WordPattern) nas been added to com.groupdocs.search.SearchQuery class.

Method SearchQuery getChild(int) nas been added to com.groupdocs.search.SearchQuery class.

Usecases

The first example shows how to perform wildcard search using the query in text form:

String indexFolder = "c:\\MyIndex";
String documentFolder = "c:\\MyDocuments";
 
// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);
 
// Adding documents to index
index.addToIndex(documentFolder);
 
// Searching for words 'affect' or 'effect' in a one document with 'principal', 'principle', 'principles', or 'principally'
SearchResults results1 = index.search("?ffect & princip?(2~4)");
 
// Searching with a single query for phrases 'assure equal opportunities', 'ensure equal opportunities', and 'sure equal opportunities'
SearchResults results2 = index.search("\"?(0~2)sure equal opportunities\"");

The next example shows how to perform wildcard search using a query in object form:

String indexFolder = "c:\\MyIndex";
String documentFolder = "c:\\MyDocuments";
  
// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);
  
// Adding documents to index
index.addToIndex(documentFolder);
  
// Constructing query 1
// Word 1 in the query is a pattern '?ffect' for wildcard search
WordPattern pattert11 = new WordPattern();
pattert11.appendOneCharacterWildcard();
pattert11.appendString("ffect");
SearchQuery subquery11 = SearchQuery.createWordPatternQuery(pattert11);
  
// Word 2 in the query is a pattern 'princip?(2~4)' for wildcard search
WordPattern pattert12 = new WordPattern();
pattert12.appendString("princip");
pattert12.appendWildcard(2, 4);
SearchQuery subquery12 = SearchQuery.createWordPatternQuery(pattert12);
  
// Creating boolean search query
SearchQuery query1 = SearchQuery.createAndQuery(subquery11, subquery12);
  
// Searching with query 1
SearchResults results1 = index.search(query1, new SearchParameters());
  
// Constructing query 2
// Word 1 in the phrase is a pattern '?(0~2)sure' for wildcard search
WordPattern pattert21 = new WordPattern();
pattert21.appendWildcard(0, 2);
pattert21.appendString("sure");
SearchQuery subquery21 = SearchQuery.createWordPatternQuery(pattert21);
  
// Word 2 in the phrase is searched with different word forms ('equal', 'equals', 'equally', etc.)
SearchQuery subquery22 = SearchQuery.createWordQuery("equal");
subquery22.setSearchParameters(new SearchParameters());
subquery22.getSearchParameters().setUseWordFormsSearch(true);
  
// Word 3 in the phrase is searched with maximum 2 differences of fuzzy search
SearchQuery subquery23 = SearchQuery.createWordQuery("opportunities");
subquery23.setSearchParameters(new SearchParameters());
subquery23.getSearchParameters().getFuzzySearch().setEnabled(true);
subquery23.getSearchParameters().getFuzzySearch().setFuzzyAlgorithm(new TableDiscreteFunction(2));
  
// Creating phrase search query
SearchQuery query2 = SearchQuery.createPhraseSearchQuery(subquery21, subquery22, subquery23);
  
// Searching with query 2
SearchResults results2 = index.search(query2, new SearchParameters());