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Can I apply a template for each word on a phrase?

DI_SI_GO — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 01:41:36 GMT

I am using Alfresco Rest API (/alfresco/api/-default-/public/search/versions/1/search)

I perform the following search:

{
    "query": {
        "query": "WOOF:((H) (A minor) (Anor))"
    },
    "defaults": {
        "defaultFTSOperator": "AND",
        "defaultFTSFieldOperator": "OR"
    },
    "templates": [
        {
            "name": "WOOF",
            "template": "(%content OR %cm:title) AND TYPE:content"
        }
    ]
}

And I get like 200 results, but if I search the same: (H) (A minor) (Anor) in Alfresco Share ,I get about 500 results. I found that it does something like this:

{
    "query": {
        "query": "((WOOF:(H)) (WOOF:(A minor)) (WOOF:(Anor)))"
    },
    "defaults": {
        "defaultFTSOperator": "AND",
        "defaultFTSFieldOperator": "OR"
    },
    "templates": [
        {
            "name": "WOOF",
            "template": "(%cm:content OR %cm:title) AND TYPE:content"
        }
    ]
}

(Note: I know that Alfresco Shares uses an internal API/slingshot and that's why there are variations, so I am trying to kind of duplicate its behavior).

So, the previous query gives me the results that I am looking for, but to accomplish that, I had to add the WOOF template as prefix of each term.

Is there a way to achieve this without adding the template per term? because the user its just going to type: (H) (A minor) (Anor) and what I expect, is the outcome of this last query.

Re: Can I apply a template for each word on a phrase?

afaust — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:56:49 GMT

Before going into the question of the template: The use of parantheses to group query inputs is extremely weird. I don't know if the search would really be executed in a way that a user would expect.

WOOF:((H) (A minor) (Anor))

=> Given your default FTS operator + field operator config, this would effectively search for

WOOF:H OR WOOF:A OR WOOF:minor OR WOOF:Anor

=> where I would expect the user that rather intends to find what the following query would return

WOOF:H OR WOOF:"A minor" OR WOOF:Anor

As for the template: The thing is that templates are applied before field term groupings are expanded. So

WOOF:(A B)

becomes

(cm:content:(A B) OR cm:title:(A B)) AND TYPE:content

What is happening in Share is that - I assume - someone has customised it to apply WOOF as the default field name when no field name is explicitly set, and as a result, the input (A B) would be turned into

(WOOF:A WOOF:B)

You should be able to achieve the same with ReST API by specifying the defaultFieldName property with the value of WOOF in the search request JSON.

Re: Can I apply a template for each word on a phrase?

DI_SI_GO — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:09:40 GMT

Thanks, yes that was what I was looking for.

Regards.