org.dspace.app.xmlui.aspect.artifactbrowser
Class AdvancedSearchUtils

java.lang.Object
  org.dspace.app.xmlui.aspect.artifactbrowser.AdvancedSearchUtils

public class AdvancedSearchUtils
extends Object

Central place where advanced search queries can be built since these are built on several places

Author:

Kevin Van de Velde (kevin at atmire dot com), Ben Bosman (ben at atmire dot com), Mark Diggory (markd at atmire dot com)

Nested Class Summary

static class

AdvancedSearchUtils.SearchField A private record keeping class to relate the various components of a search field together.

Constructor Summary

AdvancedSearchUtils()

Method Summary

static String	buildQuery(List<AdvancedSearchUtils.SearchField> fields) Given a list of search fields build a lucene search query string.
static List<AdvancedSearchUtils.SearchField>	getSearchFields(org.apache.cocoon.environment.Request request) Get a list of search fields from the request object and parse them into a linear array of fileds.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AdvancedSearchUtils

public AdvancedSearchUtils()

Method Detail

buildQuery

public static String buildQuery(List<AdvancedSearchUtils.SearchField> fields)

Given a list of search fields build a lucene search query string.

Parameters:

fields - The search fields

Returns:

A string

getSearchFields

public static List<AdvancedSearchUtils.SearchField> getSearchFields(org.apache.cocoon.environment.Request request)
                                                             throws UIException

Get a list of search fields from the request object and parse them into a linear array of fileds. The field's index is preserved, so if it comes in as index 17 it will be outputted as field 17.

Parameters:

request - The http request object

Returns:

Array of search fields

Throws:

UIException