examples/simpleindex.cc

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/* Copyright (C) 2007,2010 Olly Betts
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
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 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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 */

#include <xapian.h>

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#include <cstdlib> // For exit().
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
try {
    if (argc != 2 || argv[1][0] == '-') {
        int rc = 1;
        if (argv[1]) {
            if (strcmp(argv[1], "--version") == 0) {
                cout << "simpleindex" << endl;
                exit(0);
            }
            if (strcmp(argv[1], "--help") == 0) {
                rc = 0;
            }
        }
        cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " PATH_TO_DATABASE\n"
                "Index each paragraph of a text file as a Xapian document." << endl;
        exit(rc);
    }

    // Open the database for update, creating a new database if necessary.
    Xapian::WritableDatabase db(argv[1], Xapian::DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN);

    Xapian::TermGenerator indexer;
    Xapian::Stem stemmer("english");
    indexer.set_stemmer(stemmer);

    string para;
    while (true) {
        string line;
        if (cin.eof()) {
            if (para.empty()) break;
        } else {
            getline(cin, line);
        }

        if (line.empty()) {
            if (!para.empty()) {
                // We've reached the end of a paragraph, so index it.
                Xapian::Document doc;
                doc.set_data(para);

                indexer.set_document(doc);
                indexer.index_text(para);

                // Add the document to the database.
                db.add_document(doc);

                para.resize(0);
            }
        } else {
            if (!para.empty()) para += ' ';
            para += line;
        }
    }

    // Explicitly commit so that we get to see any errors.  WritableDatabase's
    // destructor will commit implicitly (unless we're in a transaction) but
    // will swallow any exceptions produced.
    db.commit();
} catch (const Xapian::Error &e) {
    cout << e.get_description() << endl;
    exit(1);
}

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