pmSearchTextQuery - Man Page
full-text search for metrics, instances and instance domains provided by PCP search services
C Synopsis
#include <pcp/pmwebapi.h>
int pmSearchTextQuery(pmSearchSettings *settings, pmSearchTextRequest *request, void *arg);
cc ... -lpcp_web
Description
Executes full-text search in name, oneline help, helptext (when available) as specified by request:
- query
Query string that will be used to search.
- count
Limits number of results. Defaults to 10.
- offset
Search offset. Defaults to 0.
- type_metric, type_indom, type_inst
Bit flags that limit query to only take into the account specific type of entities. Defaults to all.
- highlight_name, highlight_oneline, highlight_helptext
Bit flags that specify whether or not to highlight matched terms in results. Defaults to none. Highlighted terms are wrapped with `<b>' and `</b>'.
- infields_name, infields_oneline, infields_helptext
Bit flags that allow limiting full-text search query matching only to specified fields. Defaults to all.
- return_name, return_indom, return_oneline, return_helptext, return_type
Bit flags for omitting specific fields from result. Defaults to all. Fields may be omitted either way if value of a field doesn't exist for a given record.
Each entity matched by the request above will be passed to on_text_result callback provided by settings.
Diagnostics
This function always returns zero on success. On failure a negative PMAPI error code is returned.
See Also
pmproxy(1), pmlogger(1), pmsearch(1), pmSearchSetup(3), PMAPI(3) and PMWEBAPI(3).