Re:Hacker News Search
by k7d on Saturday June 04, 2011 @05:20PM
(#2620497)
For example what's the difference between "filter[queries][]" and "q" arguments for http://www.thriftdb.com/documentation/rest-api/search-api? The way I understand, q does a simple keyword matching on all fields while "filter[queries][]" is more like SQL "where" query. In that case, what operators are supported?
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The `q` argument is used to perform a full-text search across all fields. One benefit to using `q` is that you can rank results based on field matches (using the `weights` argument).
The `filter` arguments are used to cut the data before performing a full-text query:
`filter[fields][fieldname]` can be used to filter on fieldnames:
http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...
`filter[queries][]` can be used to add arbitrary filters:
http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...
http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...
The syntax for filter queries is the same as solr: