cfcollection

Description

Creates and administers Verity or Solr search engine collections.

Syntax

<cfcollection  
    action = "action" 
    categories = "yes|no" 
    collection = "collection name" 
    engine = "verity|solr 
    language = "language" 
    name = "query name" 
    path = "c">
Note: You can specify this tag’s attributes in an attributeCollection attribute whose value is a structure. Specify the structure name in the attributeCollection attribute and use the tag’s attribute names as structure keys.

History

ColdFusion 9: Added the engine attribute (required for Solr support).

ColdFusion MX 7:

  • Starting with ColdFusion MX 7, you cannot use the cfcollection tag to create alias names for existing collections. Because Verity maintains all the collection information, you cannot have two names point to the same collection.

  • Removed reference to external collections.

  • Deprecated the map and repair options of the action attribute. They might not work, and might cause an error, in later releases.

  • Added categories attribute and categorylist action.

  • Added CATEGORIES, SIZE, DOCCOUNT, and LASTMODIFIED to list of variables returned by the list action.

  • Marked as obsolete the MAPPED, ONLINE, and REGISTERED variables returned by the list action.

ColdFusion MX:

  • Changed the requirements for the action attribute: it is now required.

  • Added the action attribute list value. It is the default.

  • Changed the requirements for the action attribute value map: it is not necessary to specify the action attribute value map. (ColdFusion detects collections and creates maps collections as required.)

  • Changed acceptable collection naming: this tag accepts collection names that include spaces.

  • Changed Verity operations behavior: ColdFusion supports Verity operations on Acrobat PDF files.

  • Changed thrown exceptions: this tag can throw the SEARCHENGINE exception.

Attributes

Attribute

Req/Opt

Default

Description

action

Required; see Usage

list

  • categorylist: (Verity only) retrieves categories from the collection and indicates how many documents are in each one. Returns a structure of structures in which the category representing each substructure is associated with a number of documents. For a category in a category tree, the number of documents is the number at or below that level in the tree.

  • create: registers the collection with ColdFusion. If the collection is present, the tag creates a map to it. If the collection is not present, the tag creates it.

  • delete: unregisters a collection and deletes its directories.

  • list: returns a query result set, named from the name attribute value, of the attributes of the collections that are registered by ColdFusion. If you have Solr and Verity collections and omit the engine attribute, ColdFusion lists information for both types of collections.

  • map: creates a map to a collection. If the action is create and the collection exists, ColdFusion also creates a map to the collection.

  • optimize: optimizes the structure and contents of the collection for searching; recovers space. Causes collection to be taken offline, preventing searches and indexing.

  • repair: deprecated. Does nothing.

categories

See Usage

no

Used only for creating a collection:

  • yes: this collection includes support for categories.

  • no: this collection does not support categories.

collection

See Usage

  • A collection name. The name can include spaces.

engine

Optional

verity

The search engine for the collection:

  • solr: the Apache Lucene open source search engine

  • verity: the Verity search engine.

For the create and map actions, the default is verity. For the list action, the default is to list all collections, Verity and Solr. For all other actions ColdFusion determines the collection type.

language

See Usage

English

For a list of options, see Usage.

For languages other than English, Verity requires the appropriate (European or Asian) Verity Locales language pack.

name

See Usage

Name for the query results returned by the list and categorylist actions.

path

See Usage

Absolute path to a collection.

To map an existing collection, specify a fully qualified path to the collection (not including the collection name); for example, "C:\MyCollections\".

Usage

With this tag you can

  • Create Solr or Verity collections.

  • Administer Solr or Verity collections created by this tag or the ColdFusion Administrator.

  • Administer Verity collections that were created by a Verity application.

The following table shows the dependence relationships among this tag’s attribute values:

This attribute is required, optional, or unnecessary (blank):

For this action attribute value:

 

list

create

map

optimize

repair

delete

category list

collection

 

Required

Required

Required

Required

Required

Required

path

 

Required

Required

 

 

 

 

language

 

Optional

Optional

 

 

 

 

name

Required

 

 

 

 

 

Required

categories

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following examples show the structures returned by the categorylist action:

CATEGORIES

blue

10

green

3

magenta

3

purple

2

CATEGORYTREES

a/

10

a/b

10

a/b/c

10

a/b/c/subdir

3

The list action returns the following information in a result set that contains one row per collection:

Column

Contents

CATEGORIES

  • yes: the collection has category support enabled.

  • no: the collection does not have category support enabled.

CHARSET

The character set of the collection.

CREATED

The date and time that the collection was created.

DOCCOUNT

The number of documents in this collection.

EXTERNAL

  • yes: the collection is external.

  • no: the collection is not external.

  • not found: the collection is registered but is not available in the defined path.

LANGUAGE

The locale setting of the collection.

This information is not available for K2Server collections.

LASTMODIFIED

The date and time that the collection was last changed.

MAPPED

Obsolete.

NAME

The name of the collection.

ONLINE

Obsolete.

PATH

Absolute path to the collection.

REGISTERED

Obsolete.

SIZE

The size of the collection, expressed in kilobytes.

You can also specify uni to enable support for multiple languages.

If the Verity Server is not running when the list action is executed on a Verity collection, the tag throws an error.

To determine whether a collection exists, use code, such as the following, to execute a query of queries:

<cfcollection action="list" name="myCollections" >  
<cfquery name="qoq" dbtype="query"> 
    SELECT * from myCollections  
    WHERE myCollections.name = 'myCollectionName' 
    </cfquery>  
<cfif qoq.recordcount GT 0> 
    <!--- Collection exists ---> 
    <cfdump var = #qoq#> 
</cfif>

To get a result set with values for all the collections that are registered with the search server, use code such as the following:

<cfcollection action="list" name="myCollections"> 
<cfoutput query="myCollections"> 
    #name#<br> 
</cfoutput>

To add content to a collection, use cfindex. To search a collection, use cfsearch.

You cannot delete Verity collections on Windows if they are created outside of the ColdFusion collections directory or on a drive other than C:, D: or E:. To use a different drive letter, edit the cf_dir/verity/common/verity.cfg file and replace an entry with the directory you wish to use as follows:

alias11=path6 
mapping11=F:\ 
dirmode11=rw

Restart the ColdFusion Search Service for this change to take effect.

For Solr collections, the language attribute of this tag supports the following options:

Brazilian

cjk (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)

French

Russian

Czech

Dutch

German

Thai

Chinese

English

Greek

 

For Verity collections, the language attribute of this tag supports the following options:

Asian Language Pack

Japanese

Korean

Chinese

Traditional Chinese

Multilanguage Language Pac

Unicode

 

 

 

Western European Language Pack

Bokmal

Finnish

Italian

Spanish

Danish

French

Nynorsk

Swedish

Dutch

German

Portuguese

 

Eastern European/Middle Eastern Language Pack

Arabic

Greek

Polish

Turkish

Bulgarian

Hebrew

Russian

 

Czech

Hungarian

Russian2

 

The default location for all collections is as follows:

  • Server configuration:

    • Windows: C:\ColdFusion9\verity\collections

    • UNIX system: /opt/coldfusion9/verity/collections

  • J2EE configuration: webapp_root/WEB-INF/cfusion/verity/collections

Example

<!------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
(coll_actn.cfm) 
Check for server platform and use its default Verity Collection directory. 
If you did not install ColdFusion in the default directory, or if you use 
the J2EE configuration, or if your webroot is not C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot, you 
might need to change the path in this example. For example, for JRun4 the path 
might be C:\JRun4\Verity\Collections\ 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
<cfif Find("Windows", Server.OS.Name)> 
    <cfset collPath = "C:\JRun4\Verity\Collections\"> 
<cfelse> 
    <cfset collpath = "/opt/coldfusion9/verity/collections/"> 
</cfif> 
 
<!-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Process form input and do the requested cfcollection operation.  
---------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
 
<cfif IsDefined("form.CollectionName") AND IsDefined("form.CollectionAction")> 
    <cfif form.CollectionName is not ""> 
        <cfswitch expression="#FORM.CollectionAction#"> 
        <cfcase value="Create"> 
        <cfcollection action="CREATE" collection="#FORM.CollectionName#" 
                    path="#collPath#" categories="yes"> 
        <h3>Collection created.<br> 
            Use CFINDEX to populate it.</h3> 
        </cfcase> 
        <cfcase value="Repair"> 
        <cfcollection action="REPAIR" collection="#FORM.CollectionName#"> 
        <h3>Collection repaired.</h3> 
        </cfcase> 
        <cfcase value="Optimize"> 
        <cfcollection action="OPTIMIZE" collection="#FORM.CollectionName#"> 
        <h3>Collection optimized.</h3> 
        </cfcase> 
        <cfcase value="Delete"> 
        <cfcollection action="DELETE" collection="#FORM.CollectionName#"> 
         <h3>Collection deleted.</h3> 
        </cfcase> 
        </cfswitch> 
    <cfelse> 
    <h3>Please enter a name for your collection</h3>     
    </cfif> 
</cfif> 
 
<!-------------------------------------------------------------------- 
(coll_form.cfm) 
Form to specify the collection name and action 
    coll_form.cfm 
---------------------------------------------------------------------> 
 
<form action="coll_actn.cfm" method="POST" > 
<select name="CollectionAction"> 
    <option value="Create">Create this collection 
    <option value="Optimize">Optimize this collection 
    <option value="Repair">Repair this collection 
    <option value="Delete">Delete this collection 
</select> 
 
<p><strong>Collection on which to act</strong><br> 
Use the default value or enter your own Collection name<br> 
<input type="Text" name="CollectionName" value="My_coll"></p> 
 
<input type="Submit" name="" value="alter or create my collection"> 
</form>