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PMSEARCHTEXTQUERY(3)     Library Functions Manual    PMSEARCHTEXTQUERY(3)

NAME         top

       pmSearchTextQuery - full-text search for metrics, instances and
       instance domains provided by PCP search services

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmwebapi.h>

       int pmSearchTextQuery(pmSearchSettings *settings,
                             pmSearchTextRequest *request, void *arg);

       cc ... -lpcp_web

DESCRIPTION         top

       Executes  full-text  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 spe‐
            cific 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 full-text search query matching
            only to specified fields. Defaults to all.

       return_name, return_indom, return_oneline, return_helptext, re‐
       turn_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         top

       This function always returns zero on success.  On failure a nega‐
       tive PMAPI error code is returned.

SEE ALSO         top

       pmproxy(1), pmlogger(1), pmsearch(1), pmSearchSetup(3), PMAPI(3)
       and PMWEBAPI(3).

COLOPHON         top

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