Questions tagged [xapian]

Open Source Search Engine Library with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C#, Ruby and Lua

Xapian is a toolkit which allows developers to add advanced indexing and search facilities to their applications. It supports the Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and supports a rich set of boolean query operators.

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error installing xapian core gem

Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing xapian-core: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. rake1.8 RUBYARCHDIR=/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xapian-core-1.2.7.1/lib…
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acts_as_xapian jobs table

Can someone explain to me the inner workings of acts_as_xapian_jobs table? I ran into an issue with the acts_as_xapian plugin recently, where I kept getting the following error when it creates an object with xapian indexed fields: Mysql::Error:…
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xapian on CentOS 6 with PHP 5.3+

I've got a 64bit server with CentOS 6 and PHP 5.3 installed php-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64 I've installed xapian using RPMs from their…
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django-haystack float index with xapian backend

xapian_haystack (3.0.1) has this exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pooh/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 47, in inner response = get_response(request) File…
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django-haystack Decimal __lt query

I have django project with django-haystack and xapian backend. I have created an index: sugar=indexes.DecimalField(null=True) Now I'm trying to filter the SearchQuery with different arithmetical operators, and I'm getting strange results (trying…
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What is the best way to represent a category hierarchy using term prefixes in Xapian?

Assume I have the following example hierarchy: US Michigan Detroit Grand Rapids Lansing Minnesota Grand Rapids Minneapolis St Paul Ohio Columbus Grand Rapids Sandusky I see two ways that I could index a “Grand Rapids, Michigan” document…
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searching with haystack and xapian?

I've been trying to do this search: the post's title is 'help me' in my code it's: SearchQuerySet().filter(title=request.Get.copy()['search']) so if I search 'help', 'me', or 'help me' I get the post, however if I search 'me help', I don't. I want…
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Xapian vs Lucene.Net - Arabic documents text search

i am facing the problem of text search through a large amount of Arabic content documents (PDF and Doc files) in C# .Net. after a lot and a lot searching, i came up with 2 solutions, First, Lucene.Net and i faced the following issues 1- Arabic…
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django xapian-haystack permission problem

I have been trying to get xapian working django haystack for a project im working on that requires some search functionality but have run into a bit of a wall!! Basically i got everything installed per the instructions, so: ran make install for…
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Xapian - Search queries retrieve no matches unless '"' is added to each word

Using C++, I've managed to follow the Xapian tutorial found here. https://getting-started-with-xapian.readthedocs.io/en/latest/practical_example/index.html# The indexer program works as I expect it to, but the search program -…
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xapian problems - 32-bit C# windows

with regards to How to compile and use Xapian on Windows with C#. I have the same problem but I am running a 32-bit windows and my platform is set to run on x86 also. what can I do? i also am not able to reference zlib1.dll, every time I try it…
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How To Build Xapian 1.4.10 with MSVC2017?

I had install MSVC2017,zlib,msys2. Run configure in msys2 and have some error: ./configure CC="cl -nologo" CXX="$PWD/compile cl -nologo" CXXFLAGS=-EHsc AR=lib configure: loading site script /etc/config.site checking for a BSD-compatible…
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django centos xapian haystack

I just went through a bit of an installation process with django-haystack and xapian on my root user and eventually my other user and all the responses seem to be okay. even when I am in my other_user in shell, and running import xapian and import…
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How to implement / use analyzer in Xapian 1.4.5?

I searched in Google but didn't find any clue related to implement analyzer in Xapian, even Xapian may not support using analyzer like lucene. In another word, I can't extend to support in Chinese. Am I right? I searched in Xapian C++ API, only…
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MacOs 10.12.6 : Error while installing Xapian : Operation Not permitted

I'm trying to install xapian from source on MACOS 10.12.6. I am able to build the source but unable to install it , the error is : /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c xapian.la…