wiki.techinc.nl/includes/search/SearchIndexField.php
Adam Wight 861d718768 Add docstrings for text search index field types
Change-Id: Icd34ec79db4d8fd024a82045aaa9bedb6556caa8
2018-10-31 17:30:58 -07:00

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<?php
/**
* Definition of a mapping for the search index field.
* @since 1.28
*/
interface SearchIndexField {
/*
* Field types
*/
/**
* TEXT fields are suitable for natural language and may be subject to
* analysis such as stemming.
*
* Read more:
* https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/07/anatomy-search-token-affection/
* https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/09/13/anatomy-search-variation-under-nature/
*/
const INDEX_TYPE_TEXT = 0;
/**
* KEYWORD fields are indexed without any processing, so are appropriate
* for e.g. URLs. The content will often consist of a single token.
*/
const INDEX_TYPE_KEYWORD = 1;
const INDEX_TYPE_INTEGER = 2;
const INDEX_TYPE_NUMBER = 3;
const INDEX_TYPE_DATETIME = 4;
const INDEX_TYPE_NESTED = 5;
const INDEX_TYPE_BOOL = 6;
/**
* SHORT_TEXT is meant to be used with short text made of mostly ascii
* technical information. Generally a language agnostic analysis chain
* is used and aggressive splitting to increase recall.
* E.g suited for mime/type
*/
const INDEX_TYPE_SHORT_TEXT = 7;
/**
* Generic field flags.
*/
/**
* This field is case-insensitive.
*/
const FLAG_CASEFOLD = 1;
/**
* This field contains secondary information, which is
* already present in other fields, but can be used for
* scoring.
*/
const FLAG_SCORING = 2;
/**
* This field does not need highlight handling.
*/
const FLAG_NO_HIGHLIGHT = 4;
/**
* Do not index this field, just store it.
*/
const FLAG_NO_INDEX = 8;
/**
* Get mapping for specific search engine
* @param SearchEngine $engine
* @return array|null Null means this field does not map to anything
*/
public function getMapping( SearchEngine $engine );
/**
* Set global flag for this field.
*
* @param int $flag Bit flag to set/unset
* @param bool $unset True if flag should be unset, false by default
* @return $this
*/
public function setFlag( $flag, $unset = false );
/**
* Check if flag is set.
* @param int $flag
* @return int 0 if unset, !=0 if set
*/
public function checkFlag( $flag );
/**
* Merge two field definitions if possible.
*
* @param SearchIndexField $that
* @return SearchIndexField|false New definition or false if not mergeable.
*/
public function merge( SearchIndexField $that );
/**
* A list of search engine hints for this field.
* Hints are usually specific to a search engine implementation
* and allow to fine control how the search engine will handle this
* particular field.
*
* For example some search engine permits some optimizations
* at index time by ignoring an update if the updated value
* does not change by more than X% on a numeric value.
*
* @param SearchEngine $engine
* @return array an array of hints generally indexed by hint name. The type of
* values is search engine specific
* @since 1.30
*/
public function getEngineHints( SearchEngine $engine );
}