GroupDocs.Search for .NET 18.01 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Search for .NET 18.01.

Major Features

There are 5 enhancements in this regular monthly release. The most notable are::

Implement breaking of search process
Implement search method with query in the form of an object tree as a parameter
Implement ability to set a collection of date formats for date range search
Change date format in date range search query in accordance with ISO 8601
Implement use of wildcards in phrase search

All Changes

Key	Summary	Category
SEARCHNET-1100	Implement breaking of search process	Enhancement
SEARCHNET-1204	Implement search method with query in the form of an object tree as a parameter	Enhancement
SEARCHNET-1319	Implement ability to set a collection of date formats for date range search	Enhancement
SEARCHNET-1320	Change date format in date range search query in accordance with ISO 8601	Enhancement
SEARCHNET-1299	Implement use of wildcards in phrase search	Enhancement

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Search for .NET 18.01. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Search which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.

Implement breaking of search process

Description

This enhancement is implemented for the possibility of canceling the search operation by request and for time limitation of searching.

Public API changes

Class Cancellation has been added to GroupDocs.Search namespace.
Property bool IsCancelled has been added to GroupDocs.Search.Cancellation class.
Method void Cancel() has been added to GroupDocs.Search.Cancellation class.
Method void CancelAfter(int) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.Cancellation class.

Method SearchResults Search(string, SearchParameters, Cancellation) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.Index class.
Method SearchResults Search(SearchQuery, SearchParameters, Cancellation) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.Index class.

Method SearchResults Search(string, SearchParameters, Cancellation) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.IndexRepository class.
Method SearchResults Search(SearchQuery, SearchParameters, Cancellation) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.IndexRepository class.

Usecases

This example shows how to cancel the search operation by request:

string indexFolder = @"c:\MyIndex";
string documentsFolder = @"c:\MyDocuments";

// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);

// Indexing
index.AddToIndex(documentsFolder);

// Creating cancellation object
Cancellation cancellation = new Cancellation();
// Imitating cancelling by request
Thread thread = new Thread(() =>
{
    // Cancelling after 1 second of searching
    Thread.Sleep(1000);
    cancellation.Cancel();
});
thread.Start();

// Creating search parameters object
SearchParameters searchParameters = new SearchParameters();
searchParameters.FuzzySearch.Enabled = true;
searchParameters.FuzzySearch.FuzzyAlgorithm = new TableDiscreteFunction(3);

// Searching
SearchResults result = index.Search("\"information technology\"", searchParameters, cancellation);

This example shows how to search with time limitation:

string indexFolder = @"c:\MyIndex";
string documentsFolder = @"c:\MyDocuments";

// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);

// Indexing
index.AddToIndex(documentsFolder);

// Creating cancellation object
Cancellation cancellation = new Cancellation();
// Cancelling after 1 second of searching
cancellation.CancelAfter(1000);

// Creating search parameters object
SearchParameters searchParameters = new SearchParameters();
searchParameters.FuzzySearch.Enabled = true;
searchParameters.FuzzySearch.FuzzyAlgorithm = new TableDiscreteFunction(3);

// Searching
SearchResults result = index.Search("\"information technology\"", searchParameters, cancellation);

Implement search method with query in the form of an object tree as a parameter

Description

This enhancement facilitates the creation of complex queries and reduces the number of errors in queries. In addition, it is a more flexible way to create queries.

Public API changes

Class SearchQuery has been added to GroupDocs.Search namespace.
Property string FieldName has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Property int ChildCount has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Property SearchQuery FirstChild has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Property SearchQuery SecondChild has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Property SearchParameters SearchParameters has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateWordQuery(string) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateRegexQuery(string, RegexOptions) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateNumericRangeQuery(long, long) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateDateRangeQuery(DateTime, DateTime) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreatePhraseSearchQuery(SearchQuery[]) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateFieldQuery(string, SearchQuery) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateNotQuery(SearchQuery) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateAndQuery(SearchQuery, SearchQuery) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateOrQuery(SearchQuery, SearchQuery) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.

Property SearchQuery SearchQuery has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchingReport class.

Method SearchResults Search(SearchQuery, SearchParameters) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.Index class.
Method SearchResults Search(SearchQuery, SearchParameters) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.IndexRepository class.

Usecases

This example shows how to perform search with query in the object tree form:

string indexFolder = @"c:\MyIndex";
string documentsFolder = @"c:\MyDocuments";

// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);

// Indexing
index.AddToIndex(documentsFolder);

// Creating subquery 1
SearchQuery subquery1 = SearchQuery.CreateWordQuery("future");
subquery1.SearchParameters = new SearchParameters();
subquery1.SearchParameters.FuzzySearch.Enabled = true;
subquery1.SearchParameters.FuzzySearch.ConsiderTranspositions = true;
subquery1.SearchParameters.FuzzySearch.FuzzyAlgorithm = new TableDiscreteFunction(3);

// Creating subquery 2
SearchQuery subquery2 = SearchQuery.CreateNumericRangeQuery(1, 1000000);

// Creating subquery 3
SearchQuery subquery3 = SearchQuery.CreateRegexQuery(@"(.)\1");

// Combining subqueries into one query
SearchQuery query = SearchQuery.CreatePhraseSearchQuery(subquery1, subquery2, subquery3);

// Creating search parameters object with increased capacity of results
SearchParameters searchParameters = new SearchParameters();
searchParameters.MaxHitCountPerTerm = 1000000;
searchParameters.MaxTotalHitCount = 10000000;

// Searching
SearchResults result = index.Search(query, searchParameters);

// The results may contain the following word sequences:
// futile 12 blessed
// father 7 excellent
// tyre 8 assyria
// return 147 229

Change date format in date range search query in accordance with ISO 8601

Description

This enhancement is implemented to be closer to international standards.
The new date format is ‘yyyy-MM-dd’.

Public API changes

None.

Usecases

This example shows how to perform date range search with new date format:

string indexFolder = @"c:\MyIndex";
string documentsFolder = @"c:\MyDocuments";

// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);

// Indexing
index.AddToIndex(documentsFolder);

// Searching
SearchResults result = index.Search("daterange(2015-10-25~~2017-01-03)");

Implement ability to set a collection of date formats for date range search

Description

This enhancement provides the ability to set a collection of date formats for date range search.
The default collection contains three date formats: ‘dd.MM.yyyy’, ‘MM/dd/yyyy’, ‘yyyy-MM-dd’.

Public API changes

Class DateFormatElement has been added to GroupDocs.Search namespace.
Property string Format has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property string SingleFormat has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property string DateSeparator has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement DayOfMonth has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement DayOfMonthTwoDigits has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement Month has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement MonthTwoDigits has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement MonthAbbreviatedName has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement MonthFullName has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement Year has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement YearTwoDigits has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.
Property DateFormatElement YearFourDigits has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatElement class.

Class DateFormat has been added to GroupDocs.Search namespace.
Property string DateSeparator has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormat class.

Class DateFormatCollection has been added to GroupDocs.Search namespace.
Property int Count has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatCollection class.
Property bool IsReadOnly has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatCollection class.
Method void Add(DateFormat) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatCollection class.
Method void Clear() has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatCollection class.
Method void Contains(DateFormat) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatCollection class.
Method void CopyTo(DateFormat[], int) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatCollection class.
Method void Remove(DateFormat) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatCollection class.
Method void GetEnumerator() has been added to GroupDocs.Search.DateFormatCollection class.

Property DateFormatCollection DateFormats has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchParameters class.

Usecases

This example shows how to set custom collection of date formats and perform date range search:

string indexFolder = @"c:\MyIndex";
string documentsFolder = @"c:\MyDocuments";

// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);

// Indexing
index.AddToIndex(documentsFolder);

// Creating search parameters object
SearchParameters searchParameters = new SearchParameters();

// Deleting default formats
searchParameters.DateFormats.Clear();

// Adding format 'MM/dd/yyyy'
DateFormatElement[] formatElements1 = new DateFormatElement[]
{
    DateFormatElement.MonthTwoDigits,
    DateFormatElement.DateSeparator,
    DateFormatElement.DayOfMonthTwoDigits,
    DateFormatElement.DateSeparator,
    DateFormatElement.YearFourDigits,
};
DateFormat format1 = new DateFormat(formatElements1, "/");
searchParameters.DateFormats.Add(format1);

// Adding format 'dd.MM.yyyy'
DateFormatElement[] formatElements2 = new DateFormatElement[]
{
    DateFormatElement.DayOfMonthTwoDigits,
    DateFormatElement.DateSeparator,
    DateFormatElement.MonthTwoDigits,
    DateFormatElement.DateSeparator,
    DateFormatElement.YearFourDigits,
};
DateFormat format2 = new DateFormat(formatElements2, ".");
searchParameters.DateFormats.Add(format2);

// Searching
SearchResults result = index.Search("daterange(1991-11-24~~1992-12-25)", searchParameters);

Implement use of wildcards in phrase search

Description

This enhancement is implemented to make it possible to search phrase with wildcards.
Syntax in text form query:
*D
or
*N~~M,
where D is constant distance between consecutive terms in phrase; N is minimal value of variable distance; M is maximal value of variable distance. All values D, N, and M must be in the range from 0 to 255.

Public API changes

Method SearchQuery CreateWildcardQuery(byte) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.
Method SearchQuery CreateWildcardQuery(byte, byte) has been added to GroupDocs.Search.SearchQuery class.

Usecases

This example shows how to perform phrase search with wildcards using query in the object tree form:

string indexFolder = @"c:\MyIndex";
string documentsFolder = @"c:\MyDocuments";

// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);

// Indexing
index.AddToIndex(documentsFolder);

// Creating subquery of date range search
SearchQuery subquery1 = SearchQuery.CreateDateRangeQuery(new DateTime(2011, 6, 17), new DateTime(2013, 1, 1));

// Creating subquery of wildcard with number of missed words from 0 to 2
SearchQuery subquery2 = SearchQuery.CreateWildcardQuery(0, 2);

// Creating subquery of simple word
SearchQuery subquery3 = SearchQuery.CreateWordQuery("birth");
subquery3.SearchParameters = new SearchParameters();
subquery3.SearchParameters.FuzzySearch.Enabled = true;
subquery3.SearchParameters.FuzzySearch.FuzzyAlgorithm = new TableDiscreteFunction(1);

// Combining subqueries into one query
SearchQuery query = SearchQuery.CreatePhraseSearchQuery(subquery1, subquery2, subquery3);

// Creating search parameters object with increased capacity of results
SearchParameters searchParameters = new SearchParameters();
searchParameters.MaxHitCountPerTerm = 1000000;
searchParameters.MaxTotalHitCount = 10000000;

// Searching
SearchResults result = index.Search(query, searchParameters);

// The results may contain the following word sequences:
// 03/29/2012 * * births
// 29.07.2011 * birth
// 2013-01-01 birth

This example shows how to perform phrase search with wildcards using the query in the text form:

string indexFolder = @"c:\MyIndex";
string documentsFolder = @"c:\MyDocuments";

// Creating index
Index index = new Index(indexFolder);

// Indexing
index.AddToIndex(documentsFolder);

// Searching for 'First law of thermodynamics'
// Note that wildcard is used instead of 'of' because it is not indexed as a stop word
SearchResults result1 = index.Search("\"First law *1 thermodynamics\"");

// Searching for 'Frodo spoke to Pippin' and 'Frodo stripped the blankets from Pippin'
SearchResults result2 = index.Search("\"Frodo *1~~5 Pippin\"");