Revision history for KinoSearch
0.20_02 2007-03-06
* Rework Schema API.
o Add instance method add_field(), facilitating dynamic schemas.
o Remove init_fields().
o Require the declaration of a %FIELDS hash.
o Change how field names are associated with FieldSpecs.
o Update documentation throughout KinoSearch to reflect the new API.
* Fix crashing bug in in TermListWriter/TermListReader isolated by Edward
Betts.
0.20_01 2007-02-26
KinoSearch 0.20 is a major rewrite, adding many new features. It also
breaks backwards compatibility in a number of ways.
Two key features, UTF-8 support and custom sorting, were not possible to
implement while preserving backwards compatibility. Once the decision was
made to proceed with them, breaking all existing installations, it made
little sense to proceed by half measures, so the API has been given a
significant overhaul.
KinoSearch has always carried an "alpha code" warning; it is being invoked
for this release. While it will continue to carry the "alpha" warning for
a short while longer, the point of jamming so many changes into one release
is to cause disruption only once; once the code in 0.20 proves itself,
hopefully no more backwards incompatible changes will be needed any time
soon.
New behaviors:
* KinoSearch now uses UTF-8 for all input and output, throughout the
entire library. This affects many classes, but particularly those under
Analysis, Highlight, and QueryParser.
* The default scoring algorithm has changed subtly -- aggressive
per-field boosting is no longer important or even desirable. The old
behavior is available from KinoSearch::Contrib::LongFieldSim.
New public classes:
* KinoSearch::Schema
* KinoSearch::Schema::FieldSpec
* KinoSearch::InvIndex
* KinoSearch::Analysis::Token
* KinoSearch::Search::RangeFilter
* KinoSearch::Search::SortSpec
* KinoSearch::Search::Similarity
* KinoSearch::Contrib::LongFieldSim
New documentation:
* KinoSearch::Docs::NFS
Removed classes:
* KinoSearch::Document::Doc
* KinoSearch::Document::Field
* KinoSearch::Search::Hit
Renamed classes:
* KinoSearch::Store::InvIndex => KinoSearch::Store::Folder
* KinoSearch::Store::FSInvIndex => KinoSearch::Store::FSFolder
* KinoSearch::Store::RAMInvIndex => KinoSearch::Store::RAMFolder
Updated documentation:
* KinoSearch
* KinoSearch::Docs::DevGuide
* KinoSearch::Docs::FileFormat
* KinoSearch::Docs::Tutorial
Classes with API changes:
* KinoSearch::InvIndexer
o new() - Args changed.
* create - Removed.
* analyzer - Removed.
* lock_id - Added.
o spec_field() - Removed.
o new_doc() - Removed.
o add_doc() - Args changed.
* Takes a hashref rather than a Doc object.
* Accepts optional labeled param 'boost'.
o delete_docs_by_term() - Removed.
o delete_by_term() - Added. (Behavior differs subtly from
delete_docs_by_term()).
* KinoSearch::Searcher
o new() - args changed.
* analyzer - Removed.
o search() - Now calls Hits->seek before returning Hits object. Args
changed.
* offset - Added.
* num_wanted - Added.
* sort_spec - Added.
* KinoSearch::Search::Hits
o Now comes pre-seeked, courtesy of changes to Searcher.
o seek() - No longer triggers new number crunching if requested values
can be accomodated using results of prior search.
o fetch_hit() - Removed.
o create_excerpts() - Now puts multiple excerpts under $hit->{excerpts}
rather than one under $hit->{excerpt}.
* KinoSearch::Search::MultiSearcher
o new() - Args changed.
* schema - Added.
* analyzer - Removed.
* KinoSearch::Highlight::Highlighter
o new() - Args changed.
* fields - Added.
* excerpt_length - Now specified in characters rather than bytes.
* excerpt_field - Removed.
* pre_tag - Removed.
* post_tag - Removed.
* KinoSearch::QueryParser::QueryParser
o new() - Args changed.
* schema - Added.
* default_field - Removed.
* analyzer - No longer required -- now used to override schema.
* KinoSearch::Analysis::TokenBatch
o new() - Args changed.
* text - Added.
o next() - Returns a Token instead of a boolean.
o reset() - Added.
o add_many_tokens() - Added.
o set_text(), get_text(), set_start_offset(), get_start_offset(),
set_end_offset(), get_end_offset(), set_pos_inc(), get_pos_inc - All
removed.
Internal changes:
Large-scale refactoring has taken place. The most significant
changes are...
* OO framework imposed on C code via boilerplater.pl, with
KinoSearch::Util::Obj as the base class.
* Charmonizer added.
* perlapi functions and data structures replaced whenever possible.
* Lots of classes, especially under KinoSearch::Index, reorganized around
Schema and SegInfo.
* Many tests added, removed, or revised to accomodate changes in the main
library code.
* C code moved to dedicated files.
* Build.PL custom code moved to buildlib/KinoSearchBuild.pm
File Format:
* Significantly redesigned. The most visible change is that the segments
file is now encoded using YAML rather than an arbitrary binary format.
* Old indexes cannot be read and must be regenerated.
Locking
* write.lock files now located in the index directory rather than
under /tmp.
* Commit locks are no longer needed due to file format changes.
* Stale write locks are now removed without warning.
0.15 2006-12-04
* Remove dead lock files when possible (with a warning), rather than failing
outright. (Credit to Matthew O'Connor, Luke Closs, Socialtext for
providing initial implementation and test.)
* Fix package name glitch in SearchClient.
0.14 2006-11-12
* Add MultiSearcher, SearchServer and SearchClient.
0.13 2006-08-19
* Fix "negate operator" bug in QueryParser.
* Allow multiple fields to be spec'd for QueryParser.
* Add Finnish stoplist.
* Add ExtUtils::ParseXS and ExtUtils::CBuilder as prereqs, since
Module::Build doesn't handle C code as of 0.28.
0.12 2006-06-26
* Modify Highlighter API
o Deprecate pre_tag, post_tag arguments to new().
o Now encodes some HTML entities by default.
o Add support for new classes Encoder, SimpleHTMLEncoder, Formatter,
and SimpleHTMLFormatter.
* Add new class KinoSearch::Search::Hit.
* Add Hits::fetch_hit, which returns a Hit object.
* Expose experimental API for TokenBatch.
* Expose experimental API for Analyzer::analyze().
* Fix bug with Stopalized indexes and QueryParser.
* Fix bug: returned hits now sort secondarily on doc_num as advertised.
0.11 2006-05-17
* Restore Stopalizer functionality.
* Launder filenames so they pass taint check when index is initialized.
* Restore call to optimize() in Lucene benchmarker.
0.10 2006-05-04
* Improved Windows compatibility.
* Make it possible to subclass some KinoSearch classes.
* Add InVindexer::add_invindexes().
* Add bin/dump_index, contributed by Brian Phillips.
* Tighten up C code for ISO C90 compliance.
* Improved support for Russian and KOI8-R encoding.
* Fixed bug affecting indexes with segments bigger than 4 GB.
* Fixed bug #18899, KinoSearch and locale.
0.09 2006-04-13
* Incremental indexing enabled
o delete_docs_by_term() added to InvIndexer.
o option 'optimize' added to InvIndexer::finish.
* Hits now returns the top 100 matches by default unless seek() has been
called.
* QueryFilter added.
* Benchmarking scripts added.
0.08 2006-03-10
* Restore ability to overwrite invindexes.
0.07 2006-03-10
* Cut down on file descriptor requirements at search-time, eliminating "too
many open files" error.
* Make cleaning of invindex dir less aggressive when create => 1 is
specified.
0.06 2006-03-02
* Backwards incomaptible file format change (another is coming).
* Opened up APIs for Query subclasses and QueryParser.
* added KinoSearch::Highlight::Highlighter
* Document, field, and query boosting enabled.
* Behavior of KinoSearch::Search::Hits::fetch_hit_hashref modified.
* KinoSearch::Document::Doc::to_hashref privatized.
* Dependencies pared down.
* Fixed bug affecting invindexes with 10 or more fields
0.05 2006-01-24
* KinoSearch, a complete rewrite, supersedes Search::Kinosearch.