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secoJenaTextFacet
directive in module seco.facetedSearch

Description

A free-text search facet using Jena text search.

This facet can only be used if the SPARQL endpoint supports Jena text query.

The facet does not make any SPARQL queries, just generates SPARQL triple patterns out of the typed text for other facets to use.

The produced constraint looks like the following (where predicate, and limit are based on the configuration options, and left out if undefined):

(?id ?score) <http://jena.apache.org/text#query> (predicate "search terms" limit) .

If the graph option is defined, the constraint is wrapped accordingly:

GRAPH graph {
  (?id ?score) <http://jena.apache.org/text#query> (predicate "search terms" limit) .
}

The score is captured as variable ?score, and can thus be used to sort results.

The search terms are sanitized in order to avoid syntax errors from the backend. In case there is an even number of quotes (") they are escaped in the search terms. If there is an odd number of quotes, they are removed. Backslashes, and parentheses are removed, as well as AND, OR, and NOT, if they are the first or last tokens in the query. "~" is removed if it's the first character in the query. Consecutive "~" are removed. I.e. "~~" is changed to "~". Otherwise the search terms are not modified, so e.g. AND, OR, *, and ~ can be used in the query.

The sanitization is not reflected to the user, so if a search triggers while they are writing, and the last word they wrote is, e.g., "AND", the user will see all that they wrote, but the produced SPARQL constraint will not include the AND. The user can continue writing, and the next time the search triggers, if the query is valid, the constraint will include it.

Usage

as element:
<seco-jena-text-facet
       options="{Object}">
</seco-jena-text-facet>

Parameters

ParamTypeDetails
optionsObject

The configuration object with the following structure:

  • facetId - {string} - A friendly id for the facet. Should be unique in the set of facets, and should be usable as a SPARQL variable.
  • name - {string} - The title of the facet. Will be displayed to end users.
  • [enabled] {boolean} - Whether or not the facet is enabled by default. If undefined, the facet will be disabled by default.
  • [priority] - {number} - Priority for constraint sorting. Default is 0.
  • [predicate] - {string} - The property to use in the search. See Jena text query documentation.
  • [limit] - {number} - Limit for the text search results. See Jena text query documentation.
  • [graph] - {string} - The URI of the graph to use for the text search.