* [ANN] hyper search engine 0.2
@ 2016-06-19 9:49 Amirouche Boubekki
2016-06-19 18:55 ` Amirouche Boubekki
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From: Amirouche Boubekki @ 2016-06-19 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guile User
Héllo,
Yesterday someone on IRC asked for a new feature; the ability
to use xor/and/not/or to express queries. So here is it!
# Kesako?
The implementation is straight forward. Actually I defined
`xor*`, `and*`, `not*` and `or*` procedures that looks like
this:
```
(define* ((xor* a b) uid)
(if (procedure? a)
(if (procedure? b)
((xor* (a uid) (b uid)) uid)
((xor* (a uid) b) uid))
(if (procedure? b)
((xor* a (b uid)) uid)
(xor a b))))
```
As you can see it only accepts two arguments :(
Luckily you do no need to understand that to use it,
but it looks funny. That's why I pasted it.
Anyway, given a list of uids that you can retrieve with
`(documents db)` or `(search* db tokens ...)` you can filter
the results with the help of `(keyword db name)`:
```
(filter (and* (keyword db "hypermove") (keyword db "guile")) uids)
```
This is equivalent to `(search* db "hypermove" "guile")` but it is less
efficient!
Previously you could not for instance query the following:
```
(and* (keyword db "commercial") (or* (keyword db "hypermove") (keyword
db "gnu")))
```
Right now, `keyword` is an implementation detail. But in
the future maybe, you could think of other ways to filter
documents for instance based on some kind of ranking.
# Note on performance
Now a word on `(documents db)`. `documents` does almost
a full scan of a database... To speed things up a little,
you rely on `search*` which is faster but you have
to reword your query. For instance, the previous query,
could actually be done like that:
```
(filter (or* (keyword db "hypermove") (keyword db "gnu")) (search* db
"commercial"))
```
The documentation is up-to-date on the website:
https://framagit.org/a-guile-mind/hyper
Enjoy!
--
Amirouche ~ amz3 ~ http://www.hyperdev.fr
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* Re: [ANN] hyper search engine 0.2
2016-06-19 9:49 [ANN] hyper search engine 0.2 Amirouche Boubekki
@ 2016-06-19 18:55 ` Amirouche Boubekki
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From: Amirouche Boubekki @ 2016-06-19 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guile User; +Cc: guile-user
On 2016-06-19 11:49, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
>
> ```
> (define* ((xor* a b) uid)
> (if (procedure? a)
> (if (procedure? b)
> ((xor* (a uid) (b uid)) uid)
> ((xor* (a uid) b) uid))
> (if (procedure? b)
> ((xor* a (b uid)) uid)
> (xor a b))))
> ```
>
That procedure is buggy, since we can assume that (a uid) returns a
boolean, there is no need for the extra xor* call.
The following does what is expected thanks to ijp:
> (define ((xor* . fs) uid)
> (fold logxor 0 (map (lambda (f) (if (procedure? f) (f uid) f)) fs)))
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Amirouche ~ amz3 ~ http://www.hyperdev.fr
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