Web service message operations

Table 4-11 describes the operations supported by the Sybase Search Web service.

**Table 4-11: Web service operations**
Name	Description
Query	Allows you to search indexed documents. This operation accepts query parameters and returns results.
GetCategories	Allows you to get a list of categories from a Sybase Search server. This operation does not accept any parameters and returns all the current categories.
GetDocumentGroups	Allows you to get all the documents from a Sybase Search server. This operation does not accept any parameters, and returns all the current document groups.
GetMetadata	Allows you to get all the metadata from a Sybase Search server. This operation does not accept any parameters, and returns all the current metadata groups.
GetRealDocument	Allows you to get a real (binary) document from a Sybase Search server. This operation accepts a document ID, and returns the binary content (encoded by base64) of the original document.
GetDocumentText	Allows you to get the plain text extracted from a document This operation accepts a document ID, and returns the text content of the original document. On the server side, returned text content is first encoded by UTF-8, and later encoded by base64.