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BLSpansWrapper (always pass but it's a BLSpans now)
The repository once held engine/src/main/java/nl/inl/blacklab/search/lucene/BLSpansWrapper.java. It doesn't now.
text-pattern could eventually become unnecessary as we move their functionality into the various SpanQuery classes, and could then be moved to contrib for legacy uses.
BlackLabEngine has searchExecutorService
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BLSpanQuery adds an optimize method that is run first.
BLSpanQuery has an optimize method
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optimize() is only implemented by SpanQuerySequence for now.
SpanQuerySequence has an optimize method
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BlackLabEngine is the class that manages the BlackLab search threads. It has a searchExecutorService that search threads can be submitted to. The open and openForWriting methods can be used to open indexes.
BlackLabEngine has an open method
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BlackLabEngine is the class that manages the BlackLab search threads. It has a searchExecutorService that search threads can be submitted to. The open and openForWriting methods can be used to open indexes.
BlackLabEngine has an openForWriting method
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BlackLabIndex represents a single opened index. You can use it to search the index directly using methods like find(BLSpanQuery), or you can construct a Search description using the search() methods and then either execute it synchronously using Search.execute() or go through the cache using Search.executeAsync().
BlackLabIndex has a find method
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BlackLabIndex represents a single opened index. You can use it to search the index directly using methods like find(BLSpanQuery), or you can construct a Search description using the search() methods and then either execute it synchronously using Search.execute() or go through the cache using Search.executeAsync().
BlackLabIndex has a search method
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SearchResult is the base interface that all types of results objects implement: Hits (and its subclasses like HitsFromQueryParallel), HitGroups, DocResults, Facets, etc.
SearchResult is a contract
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SearchResult is the base interface that all types of results objects implement: Hits (and its subclasses like HitsFromQueryParallel), HitGroups, DocResults, Facets, etc.
HitGroups implements SearchResult
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SearchResult is the base interface that all types of results objects implement: Hits (and its subclasses like HitsFromQueryParallel), HitGroups, DocResults, Facets, etc.
DocResults implements SearchResult
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SearchResult is the base interface that all types of results objects implement: Hits (and its subclasses like HitsFromQueryParallel), HitGroups, DocResults, Facets, etc.
Facets implements SearchResult
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These are the important interfaces and classes involved in BlackLab's cache system and BLS's implementation: Search<R extends SearchResult> and its subclasses can be used to build complete descriptions of search requests (e.g. a query for hits, with optional sorting, grouping, etc.). It has execute() and executeAsync() methods that execute the search task described by the "tree" of Searches.
Search has an execute method
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These are the important interfaces and classes involved in BlackLab's cache system and BLS's implementation: Search<R extends SearchResult> and its subclasses can be used to build complete descriptions of search requests (e.g. a query for hits, with optional sorting, grouping, etc.). It has execute() and executeAsync() methods that execute the search task described by the "tree" of Searches.
Search has an executeAsync method
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The different classes rely on each other's functionality, so SearchHitsSorted gets a SearchHits as a parameter and will call its execute method before sorting the hits produced by that.
SearchHitsSorted depends on SearchHits
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Search<R>.executeAsync() calls SearchCache.getAsync(this), which will return a SearchCacheEntry<R extends SearchResult> that either has already completed (i.e. the results are actually in the cache from before) or will be executed and produce its results when the SearchCacheEntry (a Future) completes (i.e. wasn't in the cache but is now and is being or will be executed).
SearchCache is a contract
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Its main two methods are get() and getAsync(), which take a search (subclass of Search<R extends SearchResult>, where R is the type of SearchResult we expect from the search).
SearchCache has a getAsync method
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BlsCache implements SearchCache that manages the cache based on the amount of free Java heap memory to strive for, how long a search has been running, how long since results have been accessed, etc.
BlsCache implements SearchCache
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BlsCacheEntry submits a Runnable to BlackLabEngine's searchExecutorService.
BlsCacheEntry depends on BlackLabEngine
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SpanQuerySequence.optimize() (should be able to eliminate this as rewrite() does everything as well?)
SpanQuerySequence has an optimize method
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BLSpanQuery.rewrite() (bulk of the optimizations) including ClauseCombiner (called from SpanQuerySequence.rewrite())
BLSpanQuery has a rewrite method
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BLSpanQuery.rewrite() (bulk of the optimizations) including ClauseCombiner (called from SpanQuerySequence.rewrite())
SpanQuerySequence depends on ClauseCombiner
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To do this, pass usecontent=orig to BlackLab Server, or call Hits.settings().setConcordanceType(ConcordanceType.CONTENT_STORE).
ConcordanceType has CONTENT_STORE
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The AnnotationWriter.addValue(String) method adds a value to an annotation at the next corpus position.
AnnotationWriter has an addValue method
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You can do so using the AnnotationWriter.addValueAtPosition(String, Integer) method.
AnnotationWriter has an addValueAtPosition method
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Then use AnnotationWriter.addPayload().
AnnotationWriter has an addPayload method
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the return value of the getId() method.
Plugin has a getId method
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A plugin's name is just the value returned by getName().
Plugin has a getName method
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From the initialize() method, you can access the configuration using either method like cfgString(key, defaultValue) or fullConfig() to get the full map.
Plugin has an initialize method
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From the initialize() method, you can access the configuration using either method like cfgString(key, defaultValue) or fullConfig() to get the full map.
Plugin has a cfgString method
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From the initialize() method, you can access the configuration using either method like cfgString(key, defaultValue) or fullConfig() to get the full map.
Plugin has a fullConfig method
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then in the plugin's code (e.g. FileConverter.perform()), you can access the parameter value via e.g.
FileConverter has a perform method
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Note that QueryFunction.applyFunc() is declared to return TextPattern.EvalResult.
QueryFunction has an applyFunc method
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