NAME

DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList - Stopwords for DBIx::FullTextSearch

SYNOPSIS

use DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList;
# connect to database (regular DBI)
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:database', 'user', 'passwd');

# create a new empty stop word list
my $sl1 = DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList->create_empty($dbh, 'sl_web_1');

# or create a new one with default stop words
my $sl2 = DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList->create_default($dbh, 'sl_web_2', 'english');

# or open an existing one
my $sl3 = DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList->open($dbh, 'sl_web_3');

# add stop words
$sl1->add_stop_word(['a','in','on','the']);

# remove stop words
$sl2->remove_stop_word(['be','because','been','but','by']);

# check if word is in stoplist
$bool = $sl1->is_stop_word('in');

# empty stop words
$sl3->empty;

# drop stop word table
$sl2->drop;

DESCRIPTION

DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList provides stop lists that can be used -DBIx::FullTextSearch. StopList objects can be reused accross several FullTextSearch objects.

METHODS

CONSTRUCTERS

create_empty

my $sl = DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList->create_empty($dbh, $sl_name);

This class method creates a new StopList object.

create_default

my $sl = DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList->create_default($dbh, $sl_name, $language);

This class method creates a new StopList object, with default words loaded in for the given language. Supported languages include Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

open

my $sl = DBIx::FullTextSearch::StopList->open($dbh, $sl_name);

Opens and returns StopList object

OBJECT METHODS

add_stop_word

$sl->add_stop_word(\@stop_words);

Adds stop words to StopList object. Expects array reference as argument.

remove_stop_word

$sl->remove_stop_word(\@stop_words);

Remove stop words from StopList object.

is_stop_word

$bool = $sl->is_stop_word($stop_word);

Returns true iff stop_word is StopList object

empty

$sl->empty;

Removes all stop words in StopList object.

drop

$sl->drop;

Removes table associated with the StopList object.

AUTHOR

T.J. Mather, tjmather@tjmather.com, http://www.tjmather.com/

COPYRIGHT

All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

DBIx::FullTextSearch