[Koha-devel] Zebra, Query Parsing, Search, All the things
David Cook
dcook at prosentient.com.au
Tue Oct 13 08:26:31 CEST 2015
Hi all:
I was getting 0 results when I should've been getting 78 results with the
following query:
Host-item:Criminology and criminal justice : an international journal
I looked in the Zebra logs, and noticed that it was being transformed into
the following:
@not @and @attr 1=1033 Criminology @and @and @and @and @and criminal justice
= an international journal @attr 1=9011 1
If we decompose the RPN, we'll see that it's basically saying:
(Host-item=Crimology and ((((criminal and justice) and = ) and
international) and journal )) not Suppression=1
The problem is that "=" is going to return 0 results, so the "and" will
always be 0.
The way to remedy this problem is to add quotes around our Host-item
"value":
Host-item:"Criminology and criminal justice an international journal"
This will produce the following RPN query, which returns 78 results:
@not @attr 1=1033 "Criminology and criminal justice = an international
journal" @attr 1=9011 1
As far as I can tell, the = symbol is ignored. You can remove it or
substitute another symbol and it'll still return the same number of results.
Although it looks like using * for truncation doesn't work in double
quotation marks... I suppose that's because it's already part of a term so
you can't really translate it into RPN separately.
I notice sometimes we strip out double quotation marks from queries and
sometimes we add them in. we should probably do something consistent.
David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007
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