Hi,
I'm trying to use the REST API to run a search query on the files in Alfresco. I am able to replicate the results from the online interface, but would like to recieve the search term in it's context, as can be seen in the web interface results.
For example, when I search for "MacDougall" in the web interface, I get:
And using the API I submit:
And get back:
<item>
<title>captmidn.txt</title>
<link>http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/e8758538-7b3a-47fa-894...</link>
<description></description>
<pubDate>2017-03-23T11:59:41.093Z</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">e8758538-7b3a-47fa-8941-d812c01c1b0d</guid>
</item>
As you can see, the correct result is returned, but is missing the keyword MacDougall in it's context as per the browser search.
Is there any way in which the API can return the string "It started out as just another Saturday. April 26, 1986. John R. MacDougall, 25, spent the day..." along with the search result?
Many thanks 
Sorry to bug you again, but I'm struggling to find a way to do this still. Any chance you could point me in the right direction in terms of accessing the snippet of text with the search term appearing in it as per the UI on Share? Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot for that. I have used this on the sample data set included in the Community Edition ("Web Site Design Project"), with some success. However, I am a little confused as to why sometimes the API returns the snippet exactly as I see it in the UI, and sometimes, the API does not return a snippet at all.
For example, for a search with the term "project":
In the UI I see:
And in the REST response, I get the expected result:
{
"entry": {
"isFile": true,
"createdByUser": {
"id": "abeecher",
"displayName": "Alice Beecher"
},
"modifiedAt": "2011-06-14T10:28:54.714+0000",
"nodeType": "cm:content",
"content": {
"mimeType": "application/pdf",
"mimeTypeName": "Adobe PDF Document",
"sizeInBytes": 381778,
"encoding": "UTF-8"
},
"parentId": "e0856836-ed5e-4eee-b8e5-bd7e8fb9384c",
"createdAt": "2011-02-15T21:26:54.600+0000",
"isFolder": false,
"search": {
"score": 6.46758,
"highlight": [
{
"field": "cm:title",
"snippets": [
"¿Project? Contract for Green Energy"
]
},
{
"field": "description",
"snippets": [
"Contract for the Green Energy (project)"
]
}
]
},
"modifiedByUser": {
"id": "admin",
"displayName": "Administrator"
},
"name": "Project Contract.pdf",
"location": "nodes",
"id": "1a0b110f-1e09-4ca2-b367-fe25e4964a4e"
}
},Which returns the correct snippet as expected.
However, in the same results page, I can see in the UI:
But in the response from the API, I only see:
{
"entry": {
"isFile": true,
"createdByUser": {
"id": "mjackson",
"displayName": "Mike Jackson"
},
"modifiedAt": "2011-06-14T10:28:57.221+0000",
"nodeType": "cm:content",
"content": {
"mimeType": "text/html",
"mimeTypeName": "HTML",
"sizeInBytes": 1175,
"encoding": "UTF-8"
},
"parentId": "cdefb3a9-8f55-4771-a9e3-06fa370250f6",
"createdAt": "2011-02-15T21:46:47.847+0000",
"isFolder": false,
"search": {
"score": 0.30891252
},
"modifiedByUser": {
"id": "admin",
"displayName": "Administrator"
},
"name": "Main_Page",
"location": "nodes",
"id": "d6f3a279-ce86-4a12-8985-93b71afbb71d"
}
},This is the correct result, but the snippet has not come through in the API response.
Is there anything I can change in the query or otherwise that can make sure all the snippets I see in the UI also come through in the API response?
Sorry about the confusion before, as I only just realised that the problem wasn't that the snippet never came through, just that it sometimes comes through and sometimes doesn't, even when it is visible in the UI.
I look forward to hearing your ideas.
Many thanks
Thanks Axel, looks like I managed to figure it out.
The highlighting was not happening in the content field, which is why it was inconsistent. For reference, the query that worked was:
{
"query": {
"language": "afts",
"query": "project"
},
"paging": {
"maxItems": 100,
"skipCount": 0
},
"scope": {
"locations": "nodes"
},
"highlight": {
"prefix": "¿",
"postfix": "?",
"snippetCount":3,
"mergeContiguous": true,
"fields": [
{
"field": "cm:title"
},
{
"field": "description"
},
{
"field": "cm:content"
}
]
}
}Thanks for your help
Hello,
I'm currently doing a webscript with this query:
var def =
{
"query": 'PATH:"//*" AND TEXT:"test"',
"highlight": {
"prefix": "¿",
"postfix": "?",
"snippetCount":3,
"mergeContiguous": true,
"fields": [
{
"field": "cm:title",
},
{
"field": "cm:content",
},
{
"field": "cm:description",
}
]
}
}; The idea is to highlight the parts in the documents where the TEXT "test" is found.
My problem is that i dont know in which property i can find the matching sentence in the document when im building my object for example:
project.properties["acmedl:projectName"] = "Project B1";
project.properties["acmedl:projectNumber"] = "1";
project.properties["acmedl:projectDescription"] = "Project B1 handling important stuff";
project.properties["acmedl:projectStartDate"] = startDate;
project.properties["acmedl:projectActive"] = true;and render it to the view.
If you guys have any ideas. That would be awesome! Thx
PS: Sorry for my eng
Joga
