Analyzer API

These functions implement the HTTP API for manipulating Analyzers.

Note: Analyzers were introduced in ArangoDB 3.5 and are not supported by earlier versions of ArangoDB.

analyzer.exists

async analyzer.exists(): boolean

Checks whether the Analyzer exists.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const analyzer = db.analyzer("some-analyzer");
const result = await analyzer.exists();
// result indicates whether the Analyzer exists

analyzer.get

async analyzer.get(): Object

Retrieves the Analyzer definition for the Analyzer.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const analyzer = db.analyzer("some-analyzer");
const definition = await analyzer.get();
// definition contains the Analyzer definition

analyzer.create

async analyzer.create([options]): Object

Creates an Analyzer with the given options, then returns the new Analyzer definition.

Arguments

• options: Object (optional)

  An object with the following properties:

  • features: string (optional)

    The features to enable for this Analyzer.

  • type: string

    The type of Analyzer to create. Can be "identity", "delimiter", "stem", "norm", "ngram" or "text".

  • properties: any

    Additional properties for the given Analyzer type.

    If the type is "identity", the properties are optional or can be undefined or null.

    If the type is "delimiter", the properties must be an object with the following property:

    • delimiter: string

      Delimiter to use to split text into tokens as specified in RFC 4180, without starting new records on newlines.

    If the type is "stem", the properties must be an object with the following property:

    • locale: string

      Text locale. Format: language[_COUNTRY][.encoding][@variant].

    If the type is "norm", the properties must be an object with the following properties:

    • locale: string

      Text locale. Format: language[_COUNTRY][.encoding][@variant].

    • case: string (Default: "lower")

      Case conversion. Can be "lower", "none" or "upper".

    • accent: boolean (Default: false)

      Preserve accent in returned words.

    If the type is "ngram", the properties must be an object with the following properties:

    • max: number

      Maximum n-gram length.

    • min: number

      Minimum n-gram length.

    • preserveOriginal: boolean

      Output the original value as well.

    If the type is "text", the properties must be an object with the following properties:

    • locale: string

      Text locale. Format: language[_COUNTRY][.encoding][@variant].

    • case: string (Default: "lower")

      Case conversion. Can be "lower", "none" or "upper".

    • stopwords: Array<string> (optional)

      Words to omit from result. Defaults to the words loaded from the file at stopwordsPath.

    • stopwordsPath: string (optional)

      Path with a language sub-directory containing files with words to omit.

      Defaults to the path specified in the server-side environment variable IRESEARCH_TEXT_STOPWORD_PATH or the current working directory of the ArangoDB process.

    • accent: boolean (Default: false)

      Preserve accent in returned words.

    • stemming: boolean (Default: true)

      Apply stemming on returned words.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const analyzer = db.analyzer("potatoes");
await analyzer.create({ type: "identity" });
// the identity analyzer "potatoes" now exists

analyzer.drop

async analyzer.drop(): Object

Deletes the Analyzer from the database, then returns an object with the name of the Analyzer that was dropped.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const analyzer = db.analyzer("some-analyzer");
await analyzer.drop();
// the Analyzer "some-analyzer" no longer exists