Fulltext

If a fulltext index exists, then /_api/simple/fulltext will use this index to execute the specified fulltext query.

Create fulltext index

creates a fulltext index

POST /_api/index

Query Parameters

• collection-name (string, required): The collection name.

Request Body

• type (string, required): must be equal to “fulltext”.

• fields (array of strings, required): an array of attribute names. Currently, the array is limited to exactly one attribute.

• minLength (integer, required): Minimum character length of words to index. Will default to a server-defined value if unspecified. It is thus recommended to set this value explicitly when creating the index.

NOTE Swagger examples won’t work due to the anchor.

Creates a fulltext index for the collection collection-name, if it does not already exist. The call expects an object containing the index details.

Responses

HTTP 200: If the index already exists, then a HTTP 200 is returned.

HTTP 201: If the index does not already exist and could be created, then a HTTP 201 is returned.

HTTP 404: If the collection-name is unknown, then a HTTP 404 is returned.

Examples

Creating a fulltext index

shell> curl -X POST --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/index?collection=products <<EOF
{ 
  "type" : "fulltext", 
  "fields" : [ 
    "text" 
  ] 
}
EOF

HTTP/1.1 Created
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

{ 
  "fields" : [ 
    "text" 
  ], 
  "id" : "products/69767", 
  "isNewlyCreated" : true, 
  "minLength" : 2, 
  "sparse" : true, 
  "type" : "fulltext", 
  "unique" : false, 
  "error" : false, 
  "code" : 201 
}

shell> curl -X POST --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/index?collection=products <<EOF
{ 
  "type" : "fulltext", 
  "fields" : [ 
    "text" 
  ] 
}
EOF

HTTP/1.1 Created
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

Fulltext index query

returns documents of a collection as a result of a fulltext query

PUT /_api/simple/fulltext

Request Body

• collection (string, required): The name of the collection to query.

• attribute (string, required): The attribute that contains the texts.

• query (string, required): The fulltext query. Please refer to Fulltext queries for details.

• skip (string, required): The number of documents to skip in the query (optional).

• limit (string, required): The maximal amount of documents to return. The skip is applied before the limit restriction. (optional)

• index (string, required): The identifier of the fulltext-index to use.

This will find all documents from the collection that match the fulltext query specified in query.

In order to use the fulltext operator, a fulltext index must be defined for the collection and the specified attribute.

Returns a cursor containing the result, see HTTP Cursor for details.

Note: the fulltext simple query is deprecated as of ArangoDB 2.6. This API may be removed in future versions of ArangoDB. The preferred way for retrieving documents from a collection using the near operator is to issue an AQL query using the FULLTEXT AQL function as follows:

FOR doc IN FULLTEXT(@@collection, @attributeName, @queryString, @limit) 
  RETURN doc

Responses

HTTP 201: is returned if the query was executed successfully.

HTTP 400: is returned if the body does not contain a valid JSON representation of a query. The response body contains an error document in this case.

HTTP 404: is returned if the collection specified by collection is unknown. The response body contains an error document in this case.

Examples

shell> curl -X PUT --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/simple/fulltext <<EOF
{ 
  "collection" : "products", 
  "attribute" : "text", 
  "query" : "word" 
}
EOF

HTTP/1.1 Created
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

{ 
  "result" : [ 
    { 
      "_key" : "70057", 
      "_id" : "products/70057", 
      "_rev" : "_bHcRMaq---", 
      "text" : "this text contains word" 
    }, 
    { 
      "_key" : "70059", 
      "_id" : "products/70059", 
      "_rev" : "_bHcRMau---", 
      "text" : "this text also has a word" 
    } 
  ], 
  "hasMore" : false, 
  "count" : 2, 
  "error" : false, 
  "code" : 201 
}

shell> curl -X PUT --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/simple/fulltext <<EOF
{ 
  "collection" : "products", 
  "attribute" : "text", 
  "query" : "word" 
}
EOF

HTTP/1.1 Created
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff