Indexing the persistent entity

Indexing stores indexable data of the persistent entity in index files. Search is performed on the indexed data. The configuration you specify in the component decides the indexable data.

Specify the ORM search index directory

You can specify the index directory (the one in which all persistent entities, of an application's indexable data, are saved) either at the server-level or application-level.

At server level

  1. In the ColdFusion Administrator, go to Server Settings > Settings.

  2. In the Settings page, specify the directory details in Specify the absolute path to store index files for ORM search.

    Note:

    A directory is created for each application with the application name, in the path you specify.

At application level

Specify the index directory path as absolute or path relative to the current Application.cfc. If you specify the relative path, then it is resolved with respect to the current folder.

Note:

If you do not specify a path, the index files are stored, by default, in cfroot/ormindex.

Search settings at application level

Specify the ColdFusion ORM search settings in the Application.cfc using the properties provided in the following table:

Property

Req./Opt.

Default

Description

searchenabled

Required if using ORM search

false

If yes, ORM search is enabled.

search.autoIndex

Optional

false

If yes, autoindexing is enabled.

search.indexDir

Optional

 

If specified, creates a folder by entity name in the file system where indexes for all entities are saved. The directory you set in the ColdFusion Administrator is used for this purpose.This folder has all index information stored.If not specified, creates the folder in the application root directory.

search.language

Optional

english

Specify the language that is used to index and search.

Example

component 
{ 
this.name = "ORM_Search"; 
this.ormEnabled = "true"; 
this.ormSettings.datasource = "ORM_Dummy"; 
this.ormSettings.dbcreate = "dropcreate"; 
this.ormsettings.searchenabled = "true"; 
this.ormSettings.search.autoindex = "true"; 
this.ormSettings.search.indexDir = "C:/ormindex"; 
this.ormSettings.search.language = "English"; 
}

Search settings at the component level

Specify the following in the tag cfcomponent. The settings override the values in the Application.cfc.

Attribute

Req/Opt

Default

Description

indexable

Optional

false

If true, enables indexing for the component.

indexLanguage

Optional

english

Specify the language that is used to index and search.The value you set overrides the value defined in the Application.cfc.

autoIndex

Optional

true

If false, auto-indexing of CFC does not occur. That is, indexing occurs only in offline mode.

Search settings at the property level

Specify the following in the tag cfproperty. The settings override the values in the Application.cfc and cfcomponent.

Attribute

Req/Opt

Default

Description

indexable

Optional

false

If true, marks the column for indexing.Except in the case of PK and  compositekey  (which are indexed if any of the non-PK property is set to  indexed ), the default value is false.

indexTokenized

Optional

true

If true, the field text is broken into sub-keys for indexing.Applies only if indexed is set to true.

indexFieldName

Optional

value of the attribute name

Specifies the field name that is used in search query while indexing and performing  search .

indexBoost

Optional

 

Used to prioritize the search results. This is a numeric value.Results from this column  appears  above others in the query result. Higher the boost, the more the priority.

indexStore

Optional

false

The values are true, false, and compressed.

  • true: Stores the value in the original form, without tokenizing.
  • false: Does not store the value.
  • compressed: Stores the original value in a compressed form, based on Lucene implementation.

indexLanguage

Optional

english

Specify the language that is used to index and search.The value overrides the value defined in  cfcomponent  and the Application.cfc.

Example

Empoyee.cfc

component persistent="true" indexable="true" indexlanguage="English" table="Employee"
{ 
property name="id" fieldtype="id" ormtype="int" generator="native"; 
property name="firstname" indexable="true" indexstore="yes" indexboost="5.0"; 
property name="lastname" indexable="true" indextokenize="true" indexfieldname="surname"; 
property name="description" indexlanguage="Greek"; 
property name="dept" fieldtype="many-to-one" cfc="dept" indexable="true" indexfieldname="department" notnull="false"; 
}

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