PMSEARCHTEXTQUERY

NAME

pmSearchTextQuery - fulltext 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 fulltext 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 fulltext 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), redis-server(1), pmSearchSetup(3), PMAPI(3) and PMWEBAPI(3).