Search_each returns partial results?

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Hi,

I’m having some trouble with ferret search_each. I’m posting rails’
script/console output, so I guess you can decrypt it:

res = []
=> []

index.search_each(‘name: a*’) do |doc, score|
?> res << doc

end
=> 50

res.size
=> 10

I’m guessing the ‘=>50’ after search_each indicates that there are 50
documents returned. How come I can only see 10 in the array res?

Thanks much,
Vamsee.

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On 1/10/06, Vamsee K. [email protected] wrote:

I’m guessing the ‘=>50’ after search_each indicates that there are 50 documents returned. How come I can only see 10 in the array res?

If you look at Index::Index’s search_each method you’ll see it calls
do_search internally, which in turn calls Search::IndexSearcher’s
search method. This search method takes an options hash which accepts
the following keys:

# filter::    filters docs from the search result
# first_doc:: The index in the results of the first doc retrieved.
#             Default is 0
# num_docs::  The number of results returned. Default is 10
# sort::      An array of SortFields describing how to sort the

results.

So it is returning 10 docs due to the fact that num_docs defaults to 10.

I’ve been waiting for David to return to bring this up again, but I
think this code should be moved out of Search::IndexSearcher into
Index::Index and that there should be a Hits class a la Java Lucene to
manage the hits returned.

-F