class Client

This class was heavily based on the existing Client API by Dmytro Shteflyuk and Alexy Kovyrin. Their code worked fine, I just wanted something a bit more Ruby-ish (ie. lowercase and underscored method names). I also have used a few helper classes, just to neaten things up.

Feel free to use it wherever. Send bug reports, patches, comments and suggestions to pat at freelancing-gods dot com.

Most properties of the client are accessible through attribute accessors, and where relevant use symboles instead of the long constants common in other clients. Some examples:

client.sort_mode  = :extended
client.sort_by    = "birthday DESC"
client.match_mode = :extended

To add a filter, you will need to create a Filter object:

client.filters << Riddle::Client::Filter.new("birthday",
  Time.at(1975, 1, 1).to_i..Time.at(1985, 1, 1).to_i, false)

Public Class Methods

connection() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 134
def self.connection
  @@connection
end

connection=(value) click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 128
def self.connection=(value)
  Riddle.mutex.synchronize do
    @@connection = value
  end
end

new(servers = nil, port = nil, key = nil) click to toggle source

Can instantiate with a specific server and port - otherwise it assumes defaults of localhost and 9312 respectively. All other settings can be accessed and changed via the attribute accessors.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 141
def initialize(servers = nil, port = nil, key = nil)
  Riddle.version_warning

  @servers = Array(servers || "localhost")
  @port   = port || 9312
  @socket = nil
  @key    = key

  reset

  @queue = []
end

Public Instance Methods

add_override(attribute, type, values) click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 475
def add_override(attribute, type, values)
  @overrides[attribute] = {:type => type, :values => values}
end

append_query(search, index = '*', comments = '') click to toggle source

Append a query to the queue. This uses the same parameters as the query method.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 219
def append_query(search, index = '*', comments = '')
  @queue << query_message(search, index, comments)
end

close() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 489
def close
  close_socket
end

excerpts(options = {}) click to toggle source

Build excerpts from search terms (the words) and the text of documents. Excerpts are bodies of text that have the words highlighted. They may also be abbreviated to fit within a word limit.

As part of the options hash, you will need to define:

:docs
:words
:index

Optional settings include:

:before_match (defaults to <span class=“match”>)
:after_match (defaults to </span>)
:chunk_separator (defaults to ' … ' - which is an HTML ellipsis)
:limit (defaults to 256)
:around (defaults to 5)
:exact_phrase (defaults to false)
:single_passage (defaults to false)

The defaults differ from the official PHP client, as I've opted for semantic HTML markup.

Example:

client.excerpts(:docs => ["Pat Allan, Pat Cash"], :words => 'Pat', :index => 'pats')
#=> ["<span class=\"match\">Pat</span> Allan, <span class=\"match\">Pat</span> Cash"]

lorem_lipsum = "Lorem ipsum dolor..."

client.excerpts(:docs => ["Pat Allan, #{lorem_lipsum} Pat Cash"], :words => 'Pat', :index => 'pats')
#=> ["<span class=\"match\">Pat</span> Allan, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing
       elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua &#8230; . Excepteur
       sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est
       laborum. <span class=\"match\">Pat</span> Cash"]

Workflow:

Excerpt creation is completely isolated from searching the index. The nominated index is only used to discover encoding and charset information.

Therefore, the workflow goes:

Do the sphinx query.
Fetch the documents found by sphinx from their repositories.
Pass the documents' text to excerpts for marking up of matched terms.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 386
def excerpts(options = {})
  options[:index]                ||= '*'
  options[:before_match]         ||= '<span class="match">'
  options[:after_match]          ||= '</span>'
  options[:chunk_separator]      ||= ' &#8230; ' # ellipsis
  options[:limit]                ||= 256
  options[:limit_passages]       ||= 0
  options[:limit_words]          ||= 0
  options[:around]               ||= 5
  options[:exact_phrase]         ||= false
  options[:single_passage]       ||= false
  options[:query_mode]           ||= false
  options[:force_all_words]      ||= false
  options[:start_passage_id]     ||= 1
  options[:load_files]           ||= false
  options[:html_strip_mode]      ||= 'index'
  options[:allow_empty]          ||= false
  options[:passage_boundary]     ||= 'none'
  options[:emit_zones]           ||= false
  options[:load_files_scattered] ||= false

  response = Response.new request(:excerpt, excerpts_message(options))

  options[:docs].collect { response.next }
end

flush_attributes() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 467
def flush_attributes
  response = Response.new request(
    :flushattrs, Message.new
  )

  response.next_int
end

keywords(query, index, return_hits = false) click to toggle source

Generates a keyword list for a given query. Each keyword is represented by a hash, with keys :tokenised and :normalised. If return_hits is set to true it will also report on the number of hits and documents for each keyword (see :hits and :docs keys respectively).

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 434
def keywords(query, index, return_hits = false)
  response = Response.new request(
    :keywords,
    keywords_message(query, index, return_hits)
  )

  (0...response.next_int).collect do
    hash = {}
    hash[:tokenised]  = response.next
    hash[:normalised] = response.next

    if return_hits
      hash[:docs] = response.next_int
      hash[:hits] = response.next_int
    end

    hash
  end
end

open() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 479
def open
  open_socket

  return if Versions[:search] < 0x116

  @socket.send [
    Commands[:persist], 0, 4, 1
  ].pack("nnNN"), 0
end

query(search, index = '*', comments = '') click to toggle source

Query the Sphinx daemon - defaulting to all indices, but you can specify a specific one if you wish. The search parameter should be a string following Sphinx's expectations.

The object returned from this method is a hash with the following keys:

:matches
:fields
:attributes
:attribute_names
:words
:total
:total_found
:time
:status
:warning (if appropriate)
:error (if appropriate)

The key :matches returns an array of hashes - the actual search results. Each hash has the document id (:doc), the result weighting (:weight), and a hash of the attributes for the document (:attributes).

The :fields and :attribute_names keys return list of fields and attributes for the documents. The key :attributes will return a hash of attribute name and type pairs, and :words returns a hash of hashes representing the words from the search, with the number of documents and hits for each, along the lines of:

results[:words]["Pat"] #=> {:docs => 12, :hits => 15}

:total, :total_found and :time return the number of matches available, the total number of matches (which may be greater than the maximum available, depending on the number of matches and your sphinx configuration), and the time in milliseconds that the query took to run.

:status is the error code for the query - and if there was a related warning, it will be under the :warning key. Fatal errors will be described under :error.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 336
def query(search, index = '*', comments = '')
  @queue << query_message(search, index, comments)
  self.run.first
end

reset() click to toggle source

Reset attributes and settings to defaults.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 155
def reset
  # defaults
  @offset         = 0
  @limit          = 20
  @max_matches    = 1000
  @match_mode     = :all
  @sort_mode      = :relevance
  @sort_by        = ''
  @weights        = []
  @id_range       = 0..0
  @filters        = []
  @group_by       = ''
  @group_function = :day
  @group_clause   = '@weight DESC'
  @group_distinct = ''
  @cut_off        = 0
  @retry_count    = 0
  @retry_delay    = 0
  @anchor         = {}
  # string keys are index names, integer values are weightings
  @index_weights  = {}
  @rank_mode      = :proximity_bm25
  @rank_expr      = ''
  @max_query_time = 0
  # string keys are field names, integer values are weightings
  @field_weights  = {}
  @timeout        = 0
  @overrides      = {}
  @select         = "*"
end

run() click to toggle source

Run all the queries currently in the queue. This will return an array of results hashes.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 225
def run
  response = Response.new request(:search, @queue)

  results = @queue.collect do
    result = {
      :matches         => [],
      :fields          => [],
      :attributes      => {},
      :attribute_names => [],
      :words           => {}
    }

    result[:status] = response.next_int
    case result[:status]
    when Statuses[:warning]
      result[:warning] = response.next
    when Statuses[:error]
      result[:error] = response.next
      next result
    end

    result[:fields] = response.next_array

    attributes = response.next_int
    attributes.times do
      attribute_name = response.next
      type           = response.next_int

      result[:attributes][attribute_name] = type
      result[:attribute_names] << attribute_name
    end

    result_attribute_names_and_types = result[:attribute_names].
      inject([]) { |array, attr| array.push([ attr, result[:attributes][attr] ]) }

    matches   = response.next_int
    is_64_bit = response.next_int

    result[:matches] = (0...matches).map do |i|
      doc = is_64_bit > 0 ? response.next_64bit_int : response.next_int
      weight = response.next_int

      current_match_attributes = {}

      result_attribute_names_and_types.each do |attr, type|
        current_match_attributes[attr] = attribute_from_type(type, response)
      end

      {:doc => doc, :weight => weight, :index => i, :attributes => current_match_attributes}
    end

    result[:total] = response.next_int.to_i || 0
    result[:total_found] = response.next_int.to_i || 0
    result[:time] = ('%.3f' % (response.next_int / 1000.0)).to_f || 0.0

    words = response.next_int
    words.times do
      word = response.next
      docs = response.next_int
      hits = response.next_int
      result[:words][word] = {:docs => docs, :hits => hits}
    end

    result
  end

  @queue.clear
  results
end

server() click to toggle source

The searchd server to query. Servers are removed from @server after a Timeout::Error is hit to allow for fail-over.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 188
def server
  @servers.first
end

server=(server) click to toggle source

Backwards compatible writer to the @servers array.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 193
def server=(server)
  @servers = server.to_a
end

set_anchor(lat_attr, lat, long_attr, long) click to toggle source

Set the geo-anchor point - with the names of the attributes that contain the latitude and longitude (in radians), and the reference position. Note that for geocoding to work properly, you must also set #match_mode to :extended. To sort results by distance, you will need to set #sort_by to '@geodist asc', and #sort_mode to extended (as an example). Sphinx expects latitude and longitude to be returned from you SQL source in radians.

Example:

client.set_anchor('lat', -0.6591741, 'long', 2.530770)

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 208
def set_anchor(lat_attr, lat, long_attr, long)
  @anchor = {
    :latitude_attribute   => lat_attr,
    :latitude             => lat,
    :longitude_attribute  => long_attr,
    :longitude            => long
  }
end

status() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 454
def status
  response = Response.new request(
    :status, Message.new
  )

  rows, cols = response.next_int, response.next_int

  (0...rows).inject({}) do |hash, row|
    hash[response.next.to_sym] = response.next
    hash
  end
end

update(index, attributes, values_by_doc) click to toggle source

Update attributes - first parameter is the relevant index, second is an array of attributes to be updated, and the third is a hash, where the keys are the document ids, and the values are arrays with the attribute values - in the same order as the second parameter.

Example:

client.update('people', ['birthday'], {1 => [Time.at(1982, 20, 8).to_i]})

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 421
def update(index, attributes, values_by_doc)
  response = Response.new request(
    :update,
    update_message(index, attributes, values_by_doc)
  )

  response.next_int
end

Private Instance Methods

attribute_from_type(type, response) click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 834
def attribute_from_type(type, response)
  handler = AttributeHandlers[type]
  response.send handler
end

close_socket() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 523
def close_socket
  raise "Not Connected" if @socket.nil?

  @socket.close
  @socket = nil

  true
end

connect() { |socket| ... } click to toggle source

If there's an active connection to the Sphinx daemon, this will yield the socket. If there's no active connection, then it will connect, yield the new socket, then close it.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 535
def connect(&block)
  if @socket.nil? || @socket.closed?
    @socket = nil
    open_socket
    begin
      yield @socket
    ensure
      close_socket
    end
  else
    yield @socket
  end
end

excerpt_flags(options) click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 839
def excerpt_flags(options)
  flags = 1
  flags |= 2    if options[:exact_phrase]
  flags |= 4    if options[:single_passage]
  flags |= 8    if options[:use_boundaries]
  flags |= 16   if options[:weight_order]
  flags |= 32   if options[:query_mode]
  flags |= 64   if options[:force_all_words]
  flags |= 128  if options[:load_files]
  flags |= 256  if options[:allow_empty]
  flags |= 512  if options[:emit_zones]
  flags |= 1024 if options[:load_files_scattered]
  flags
end

excerpts_message(options) click to toggle source

Generation of the message to send to Sphinx for an excerpts request.

# File lib/riddle/1.10/client.rb, line 8
def excerpts_message(options)
  message = Message.new
  
  message.append [0, excerpt_flags(options)].pack('N2') # 0 = mode
  message.append_string options[:index]
  message.append_string options[:words]
  
  # options
  message.append_string options[:before_match]
  message.append_string options[:after_match]
  message.append_string options[:chunk_separator]
  message.append_ints options[:limit], options[:around]
  message.append_ints options[:limit_passages], options[:limit_words]
  message.append_ints options[:start_passage_id]
  message.append_string options[:html_strip_mode]
  
  if Versions[:excerpt] >= 0x103
    message.append_string options[:passage_boundary]
  end
  
  message.append_array options[:docs]
  
  message.to_s
end

initialise_connection() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/0.9.9/client.rb, line 7
def initialise_connection
  socket = initialise_socket

  # Send version
  socket.send [1].pack('N'), 0

  # Checking version
  version = socket.recv(4).unpack('N*').first
  if version < 1
    socket.close
    raise Riddle::VersionError, "Can only connect to searchd version 1.0 or better, not version #{version}"
  end

  socket
end

initialise_socket() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 565
def initialise_socket
  tries = 0
  begin
    socket = if self.connection
      self.connection.call(self)
    elsif self.class.connection
      self.class.connection.call(self)
    elsif server && server.index('/') == 0
      UNIXSocket.new server
    elsif server
      TCPSocket.new server, @port
    else
      raise "Server not set."
    end
  rescue Errno::ETIMEDOUT, Errno::ECONNRESET, Errno::ECONNREFUSED => e
    retry if (tries += 1) < 5
    raise Riddle::ConnectionError,
      "Connection to #{server} on #{@port} failed. #{e.message}"
  end

  socket
end

key_message() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 608
def key_message
  @key_message ||= begin
    message = Message.new
    message.append_string key
    message.to_s
  end
end

keywords_message(query, index, return_hits) click to toggle source

Generates the simple message to send to the daemon for a keywords request.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 813
def keywords_message(query, index, return_hits)
  message = Message.new

  message.append_string query
  message.append_string index
  message.append_int return_hits ? 1 : 0

  message.to_s
end

open_socket() click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 495
def open_socket
  raise "Already Connected" unless @socket.nil?

  available_servers = servers.dup

  if @timeout == 0
    @socket = initialise_connection
  else
    begin
      Timeout.timeout(@timeout) { @socket = initialise_connection }
    rescue Timeout::Error, Riddle::ConnectionError => e
      failed_servers ||= []
      failed_servers << available_servers.shift
      retry if !available_servers.empty?

      case e
      when Timeout::Error
        raise Riddle::ConnectionError,
          "Connection to #{failed_servers.inspect} on #{@port} timed out after #{@timeout} seconds"
      else
        raise e
      end
    end
  end

  true
end

query_message(search, index, comments = '') click to toggle source

Generation of the message to send to Sphinx for a search.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 680
def query_message(search, index, comments = '')
  message = Message.new

  # Mode, Limits
  message.append_ints @offset, @limit, MatchModes[@match_mode]

  # Ranking
  message.append_int RankModes[@rank_mode]
  message.append_string @rank_expr if @rank_mode == :expr

  # Sort Mode
  message.append_int SortModes[@sort_mode]
  message.append_string @sort_by

  # Query
  message.append_string search

  # Weights
  message.append_int @weights.length
  message.append_ints *@weights

  # Index
  message.append_string index

  # ID Range
  message.append_int 1
  message.append_64bit_ints @id_range.first, @id_range.last

  # Filters
  message.append_int @filters.length
  @filters.each { |filter| message.append filter.query_message }

  # Grouping
  message.append_int GroupFunctions[@group_function]
  message.append_string @group_by
  message.append_int @max_matches
  message.append_string @group_clause
  message.append_ints @cut_off, @retry_count, @retry_delay
  message.append_string @group_distinct

  # Anchor Point
  if @anchor.empty?
    message.append_int 0
  else
    message.append_int 1
    message.append_string @anchor[:latitude_attribute]
    message.append_string @anchor[:longitude_attribute]
    message.append_floats @anchor[:latitude], @anchor[:longitude]
  end

  # Per Index Weights
  message.append_int @index_weights.length
  @index_weights.each do |key,val|
    message.append_string key.to_s
    message.append_int val
  end

  # Max Query Time
  message.append_int @max_query_time

  # Per Field Weights
  message.append_int @field_weights.length
  @field_weights.each do |key,val|
    message.append_string key.to_s
    message.append_int val
  end

  message.append_string comments

  return message.to_s if Versions[:search] < 0x116

  # Overrides
  message.append_int @overrides.length
  @overrides.each do |key,val|
    message.append_string key.to_s
    message.append_int AttributeTypes[val[:type]]
    message.append_int val[:values].length
    val[:values].each do |id,map|
      message.append_64bit_int id
      method = case val[:type]
      when :float
        :append_float
      when :bigint
        :append_64bit_int
      else
        :append_int
      end
      message.send method, map
    end
  end

  message.append_string @select

  message.to_s
end

request(command, messages) click to toggle source

Send a collection of messages, for a command type (eg, search, excerpts, update), to the Sphinx daemon.

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 618
def request(command, messages)
  response = ""
  status   = -1
  version  = 0
  length   = 0
  message  = Riddle.encode(Array(messages).join(""), 'ASCII-8BIT')

  connect do |socket|
    case command
    when :search
      if Versions[command] >= 0x118
        socket.send request_header(command, message.length) +
          [0, messages.length].pack('NN') + message, 0
      else
        socket.send request_header(command, message.length) +
          [messages.length].pack('N') + message, 0
      end
    when :status
      socket.send request_header(command, message.length), 0
    else
      socket.send request_header(command, message.length) + message, 0
    end

    header = socket.recv(8)
    status, version, length = header.unpack('n2N')

    while response.length < (length || 0)
      part = socket.recv(length - response.length)

      # will return 0 bytes if remote side closed TCP connection, e.g, searchd segfaulted.
      break if part.length == 0 && socket.is_a?(TCPSocket)

      response << part if part
    end
  end

  if response.empty? || response.length != length
    raise ResponseError, "No response from searchd (status: #{status}, version: #{version})"
  end

  case status
  when Statuses[:ok]
    if version < Versions[command]
      puts format("searchd command v.%d.%d older than client (v.%d.%d)",
        version >> 8, version & 0xff,
        Versions[command] >> 8, Versions[command] & 0xff)
    end
    response
  when Statuses[:warning]
    length = response[0, 4].unpack('N*').first
    puts response[4, length]
    response[4 + length, response.length - 4 - length]
  when Statuses[:error], Statuses[:retry]
    message = response[4, response.length - 4]
    klass = message[/out of bounds/] ? OutOfBoundsError : ResponseError
    raise klass, "searchd error (status: #{status}): #{message}"
  else
    raise ResponseError, "Unknown searchd error (status: #{status})"
  end
end

request_header(command, length = 0) click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/client.rb, line 588
def request_header(command, length = 0)
  length += key_message.length if key
  core_header = case command
  when :search
    # Message length is +4/+8 to account for the following count value for
    # the number of messages.
    if Versions[command] >= 0x118
      [Commands[command], Versions[command], 8 + length].pack("nnN")
    else
      [Commands[command], Versions[command], 4 + length].pack("nnN")
    end
  when :status
    [Commands[command], Versions[command], 4, 1].pack("nnNN")
  else
    [Commands[command], Versions[command], length].pack("nnN")
  end

  key ? core_header + key_message : core_header
end

update_message(index, attributes, values_by_doc) click to toggle source

# File lib/riddle/0.9.9/client.rb, line 23
def update_message(index, attributes, values_by_doc)
  message = Message.new

  message.append_string index
  message.append_int attributes.length
  attributes.each_with_index do |attribute, index|
    message.append_string attribute
    message.append_boolean values_by_doc.values.first[index].is_a?(Array)
  end

  message.append_int values_by_doc.length
  values_by_doc.each do |key,values|
    message.append_64bit_int key # document ID
    values.each do |value|
      case value
      when Array
        message.append_int value.length
        message.append_ints *value
      else
        message.append_int value
      end
    end
  end

  message.to_s
end