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AFSEARCH(3)			    Amberfish			     AFSEARCH(3)

NAME
     afsearch - query a set of databases

SYNOPSIS
     #include af.h

     int afsearch(const Afsearch *r, Afsearch_r *rr);

DESCRIPTION
     The  afsearch  function  searches	one or more databases and returns an un-
     ordered list of resultant documents.

     The argument r specifies a set of options defined by the  following  struc-
     ture:

     typedef struct {
	  Uint2 *dbid;
	  int dbidn;
	  Afchar *query;
	  int qtype;
	  int score;
     } Afsearch;

     The  dbid option specifies an array of databases to be searched.  The data-
     bases are referred  to  by  their	database  descriptors,	as  returned  by
     afopen(3).

     The dbidn option specifies how many databases are in the array dbid.

     The query option specifies the query string to be applied in the search.

     The  qtype  option describes the query type used in query.  Currently there
     is only one query type supported:

     AFQUERYBOOLEAN
	    This is the standard Boolean query type.

     The score option specifies how relevance scores should be calculated:

     AFNOSCORE
	    No score is calculated.  All score values will be set to 0.

     AFSCOREDEFAULT
	    Use the default similarity function.

RETURN VALUE
     This function returns 0 if it exited normally.  If an  error  occurred,  it
     returns -1 and aferrno is set.

     If  the  function exited normally, the structure pointed to by rr is filled
     in with the following values:

     typedef struct {
	  Afresult *result;
	  int resultn;
     } Afsearch_r;

     The result value is an array of results, each  corresponding  to  a  unique
     document that matched the query.

     The resultn value is the number of elements in result.

     Each element of result is of the following type:

     typedef struct {
	  Uint4 docid;
	  Uint2 score;
	  Uint2 dbid;
     } Afresult;

     The docid is the document identifier.

     The score is the computed relevance score, normally a value in the range, 0
     to 10000.

     The dbid is the descriptor of the database containing the document.

     Additional  processing  of results is provided by afsortscore(3), afsortdo-
     cid(3), and afgetresultmd(3).

ERRORS
     In addition to the set of "core" errors, this function can return:

     AFETERMLEN
	    A query term exceeded the maximum number of characters allowed.

     AFEQUERYNEST
	    The query was too highly nested.

     AFEQUERYSYN
	    The query contained an error in syntax.

								     AFSEARCH(3)

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