doQuery

Description

Sends a new natural language query to the search engine. The more descriptive the query, the more accurate the result.

Syntax

public int doQuery(java.lang.String query,
java.lang.String database,
java.lang.String dates,
int maxDocs,
int relevance)
	throws java.rmi.RemoteException,
	com.sybase.ep.search.PortalSearchServices.SearchException

Parameters

query – natural language query

database – list of search engine databases, separated by commas

dates – date range in the form dd/mm/yyyy,dd/mm/yyyy

maxDocs – maximum number of documents to return

relevance – relevance of the document (0 – 100)

By default, values are calculated by absolute value in the DRE; that is, a number that is not limited to 100. The norm is to have the results returned in a percentage result of 0 – 100. However, depending on how a query is sent to the DRE, you may get the absolute value instead; specifically, a value greater than 100.

Return value

Number of results found.