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sylvain_mouquet
Guide
13 years ago

Search in multiple forums with pagination

Hi,

 

I with to search in multiple forums i use this request :

 /restapi/vc/categories/id/forum1/search/messages/?q=test&page_size=10&page=1

/restapi/vc/categories/id/forum2/search/messages/?q=test&page_size=10&page=1

 

the problem is i need to do the pagination on the result only.

there is a solution for solving it ?

 

In the NodeSearchContext.html file in the javadoc documentation, there is a list of queries arguments :

1) f (optional) : string - Search field.

2) q (optional) : string - Search text. 3) phrase (optional) : string - A phrase. 4) one_or_more (optional) : string- One or more term. What is the difference between each argument ? Cordially, Sylvain

 

  • Claudius's avatar
    Claudius
    Boss
    13 years ago

    Salut Sylvain,

    Can you explain a bit more what you are trying to do?

    1) Do you want to combine the result of both searches and then show those combined results using pagination?

    or

    2) Do you want to paginate in both search results seperately?

     

    Generally with the "page_size" parameter of the API call you are specifying how many result items you want to have (per page of the pagination) while the "page" parameter tells the API which page to return.

     

    Example:

    If you want to get the results from result item 30 onwards your could do either of these:

    ...page_size=30&page=2

...page_size=10&page=4

     

    The second part of your question I don't know the answer for either. Would be interesting to know what difference between the f, q and phrase parameters actually is and how the one_or_more parameter influences the result? @Lithium_devs

    • sylvain_mouquet's avatar
      sylvain_mouquet
      Guide
      13 years ago

      Hi Claudius,

       

      1) Do you want to combine the result of both searches and then show those combined results using pagination?

      yes, i wish to search in 2 forums and paginate the result.

      by example,

      nbResultByPage = 10

       /restapi/vc/categories/id/forum1/search/messages/?q=test > return 12 results

       /restapi/vc/categories/id/forum2/search/messages/?q=test > return 20 results

       

      i with to get this result

      PAGE 1 : 0-10 of forum1

      PAGE 2 : 11-12 of forum1 + 0-8 of forum2

      PAGE 3 : 9-19 of forum2

      PAGE 4 : 20 of forum2

       

      i have tried to use :

       /restapi/vc/categories/id/forum1/id/forum2/search/messages/?q=test

      but this does not work.

       

      "The second part of your question I don't know the answer for either. Would be interesting to know what difference between the f, q and phrase parameters actually is and how the one_or_more parameter influences the result? @Lithium_devs"

      yes what is the difference between this parameters and what is the influence of one_or_more parameter ?

      • Claudius's avatar
        Claudius
        Boss
        13 years ago

        What sometimes helps in answering API questions is taking a look at the page URL when using the community search page and applying some filters.
        I couldn't find a way both there or VIA API to filter by multiple locations. So probably you need to work around a bit like that (Pseudocode):

        if (number_resultsperpage_from_firstboard => results_per_page) {
// If the results from the first board already fill a page only show those
} else {
//on the page first show the results from the first board and then have another API call to pull results from second board to fill up the page with parameter page_size = results_per_page - number_resultsperpage_from_firstboard
}

         i know that's very rough because it does not include all of the pagination checking, but I hope you get the general idea.

         


        At least I can reply the second part of the question:
        On the "Search" page of your community click on "Advanced Search" and you will see the three parameters as input fields together with small (i) icons with a more detailed explanation.