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diff --git a/ext/fts2/README.tokenizers b/ext/fts2/README.tokenizers new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98d2021 --- /dev/null +++ b/ext/fts2/README.tokenizers @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ + +1. FTS2 Tokenizers + + When creating a new full-text table, FTS2 allows the user to select + the text tokenizer implementation to be used when indexing text + by specifying a "tokenizer" clause as part of the CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE + statement: + + CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE <table-name> USING fts2( + <columns ...> [, tokenizer <tokenizer-name> [<tokenizer-args>]] + ); + + The built-in tokenizers (valid values to pass as <tokenizer name>) are + "simple" and "porter". + + <tokenizer-args> should consist of zero or more white-space separated + arguments to pass to the selected tokenizer implementation. The + interpretation of the arguments, if any, depends on the individual + tokenizer. + +2. Custom Tokenizers + + FTS2 allows users to provide custom tokenizer implementations. The + interface used to create a new tokenizer is defined and described in + the fts2_tokenizer.h source file. + + Registering a new FTS2 tokenizer is similar to registering a new + virtual table module with SQLite. The user passes a pointer to a + structure containing pointers to various callback functions that + make up the implementation of the new tokenizer type. For tokenizers, + the structure (defined in fts2_tokenizer.h) is called + "sqlite3_tokenizer_module". + + FTS2 does not expose a C-function that users call to register new + tokenizer types with a database handle. Instead, the pointer must + be encoded as an SQL blob value and passed to FTS2 through the SQL + engine by evaluating a special scalar function, "fts2_tokenizer()". + The fts2_tokenizer() function may be called with one or two arguments, + as follows: + + SELECT fts2_tokenizer(<tokenizer-name>); + SELECT fts2_tokenizer(<tokenizer-name>, <sqlite3_tokenizer_module ptr>); + + Where <tokenizer-name> is a string identifying the tokenizer and + <sqlite3_tokenizer_module ptr> is a pointer to an sqlite3_tokenizer_module + structure encoded as an SQL blob. If the second argument is present, + it is registered as tokenizer <tokenizer-name> and a copy of it + returned. If only one argument is passed, a pointer to the tokenizer + implementation currently registered as <tokenizer-name> is returned, + encoded as a blob. Or, if no such tokenizer exists, an SQL exception + (error) is raised. + + SECURITY: If the fts2 extension is used in an environment where potentially + malicious users may execute arbitrary SQL (i.e. gears), they should be + prevented from invoking the fts2_tokenizer() function, possibly using the + authorisation callback. + + See "Sample code" below for an example of calling the fts2_tokenizer() + function from C code. + +3. ICU Library Tokenizers + + If this extension is compiled with the SQLITE_ENABLE_ICU pre-processor + symbol defined, then there exists a built-in tokenizer named "icu" + implemented using the ICU library. The first argument passed to the + xCreate() method (see fts2_tokenizer.h) of this tokenizer may be + an ICU locale identifier. For example "tr_TR" for Turkish as used + in Turkey, or "en_AU" for English as used in Australia. For example: + + "CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE thai_text USING fts2(text, tokenizer icu th_TH)" + + The ICU tokenizer implementation is very simple. It splits the input + text according to the ICU rules for finding word boundaries and discards + any tokens that consist entirely of white-space. This may be suitable + for some applications in some locales, but not all. If more complex + processing is required, for example to implement stemming or + discard punctuation, this can be done by creating a tokenizer + implementation that uses the ICU tokenizer as part of its implementation. + + When using the ICU tokenizer this way, it is safe to overwrite the + contents of the strings returned by the xNext() method (see + fts2_tokenizer.h). + +4. Sample code. + + The following two code samples illustrate the way C code should invoke + the fts2_tokenizer() scalar function: + + int registerTokenizer( + sqlite3 *db, + char *zName, + const sqlite3_tokenizer_module *p + ){ + int rc; + sqlite3_stmt *pStmt; + const char zSql[] = "SELECT fts2_tokenizer(?, ?)"; + + rc = sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, zSql, -1, &pStmt, 0); + if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){ + return rc; + } + + sqlite3_bind_text(pStmt, 1, zName, -1, SQLITE_STATIC); + sqlite3_bind_blob(pStmt, 2, &p, sizeof(p), SQLITE_STATIC); + sqlite3_step(pStmt); + + return sqlite3_finalize(pStmt); + } + + int queryTokenizer( + sqlite3 *db, + char *zName, + const sqlite3_tokenizer_module **pp + ){ + int rc; + sqlite3_stmt *pStmt; + const char zSql[] = "SELECT fts2_tokenizer(?)"; + + *pp = 0; + rc = sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, zSql, -1, &pStmt, 0); + if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){ + return rc; + } + + sqlite3_bind_text(pStmt, 1, zName, -1, SQLITE_STATIC); + if( SQLITE_ROW==sqlite3_step(pStmt) ){ + if( sqlite3_column_type(pStmt, 0)==SQLITE_BLOB ){ + memcpy(pp, sqlite3_column_blob(pStmt, 0), sizeof(*pp)); + } + } + + return sqlite3_finalize(pStmt); + } |