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HTTP Interface for Analyzers

The RESTful API for managing ArangoSearch Analyzers is accessible via the /_api/analyzer endpoint.

See the description of Analyzers for an introduction and the available types, properties and features.

Analyzer Operations

Create an analyzer with the suppiled definition

creates a new analyzer based on the provided definition

POST /_api/analyzer

A JSON object with these properties is required:

name: The analyzer name.
type: The analyzer type.
properties: The properties used to configure the specified type. Value may be a string, an object or null. The default value is null.
features: The set of features to set on the analyzer generated fields. The default value is an empty array.

Creates a new analyzer based on the provided configuration.

Return codes

200: An analyzer with a matching name and definition already exists.
201: A new analyzer definition was successfully created.
400: One or more of the required parameters is missing or one or more of the parameters is not valid.
403: The user does not have permission to create and analyzer with this configuration.

Examples

shell> curl -X POST --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer <<EOF
{ 
  "name" : "testAnalyzer", 
  "type" : "identity" 
}
EOF

HTTP/1.1 Created
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

{ 
  "name" : "_system::testAnalyzer", 
  "type" : "identity", 
  "properties" : { 
  }, 
  "features" : [ ] 
}

Hide response body

shell> curl -X POST --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer <<EOF
{ 
  "name" : "testAnalyzer", 
  "type" : "identity" 
}
EOF

HTTP/1.1 Created
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

Show response body

Return the analyzer definition

returns an analyzer definition

GET /_api/analyzer/{analyzer-name}

Path Parameters

analyzer-name (required): The name of the analyzer to retrieve.

Retrieves the full definition for the specified analyzer name. The resulting object contains the following attributes:

name: the analyzer name
type: the analyzer type
properties: the properties used to configure the specified type
features: the set of features to set on the analyzer generated fields

Return codes

200: The analyzer definition was retrieved successfully.
404: Such an analyzer configuration does not exist.

Examples

Retrieve an analyzer definition:

shell> curl --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer/testAnalyzer

HTTP/1.1 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

{ 
  "error" : false, 
  "code" : 200, 
  "type" : "identity", 
  "properties" : { 
  }, 
  "features" : [ ], 
  "name" : "_system::testAnalyzer" 
}

Hide response body

shell> curl --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer/testAnalyzer

HTTP/1.1 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

Show response body

List all analyzers

returns a listing of available analyzer definitions

GET /_api/analyzer

Retrieves a an array of all analyzer definitions. The resulting array contains objects with the following attributes:

name: the analyzer name
type: the analyzer type
properties: the properties used to configure the specified type
features: the set of features to set on the analyzer generated fields

Return codes

200: The analyzer definitions was retrieved successfully.

Examples

Retrieve all analyzer definitions:

shell> curl --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer

HTTP/1.1 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

{ 
  "error" : false, 
  "code" : 200, 
  "result" : [ 
    { 
      "name" : "text_zh", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "zh.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_sv", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "sv.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_pt", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "pt.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_nl", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "nl.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_no", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "no.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_de", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "de.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_ru", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "ru.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "identity", 
      "type" : "identity", 
      "properties" : { 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_en", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "en.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_es", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "es.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_it", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "it.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_fr", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "fr.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    }, 
    { 
      "name" : "text_fi", 
      "type" : "text", 
      "properties" : { 
        "locale" : "fi.utf-8", 
        "case" : "lower", 
        "stopwords" : [ ], 
        "accent" : false, 
        "stemming" : true 
      }, 
      "features" : [ 
        "position", 
        "norm", 
        "frequency" 
      ] 
    } 
  ] 
}

Hide response body

shell> curl --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer

HTTP/1.1 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

Show response body

Remove an analyzer

removes an analyzer configuration

DELETE /_api/analyzer/{analyzer-name}

Path Parameters

analyzer-name (required): The name of the analyzer to remove.

Query Parameters

force (optional): The analyzer configuration should be removed even if it is in-use. The default value is false.

Removes an analyzer configuration identified by analyzer-name.

If the analyzer definition was successfully dropped, an object is returned with the following attributes:

error: false
name: The name of the removed analyzer

Return codes

200: The analyzer configuration was removed successfully.
400: The analyzer-name was not supplied or another request parameter was not valid.
403: The user does not have permission to remove this analyzer configuration.
404: Such an analyzer configuration does not exist.
409: The specified analyzer configuration is still in use and force was omitted or false specified.

Examples

Removing without force:

shell> curl -X DELETE --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer/testAnalyzer

HTTP/1.1 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

{ 
  "error" : false, 
  "code" : 200, 
  "name" : "_system::testAnalyzer" 
}

Hide response body

shell> curl -X DELETE --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer/testAnalyzer

HTTP/1.1 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

Show response body

Removing with force:

shell> curl -X POST --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/collection <<EOF
{ 
  "name" : "testCollection" 
}
EOF

shell> curl -X POST --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/view <<EOF
{ 
  "name" : "testView", 
  "type" : "arangosearch", 
  "links" : { 
    "testCollection" : { 
      "analyzers" : [ 
        "testAnalyzer" 
      ] 
    } 
  } 
}
EOF

shell> curl -X DELETE --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer/testAnalyzer?force=false

shell> curl -X DELETE --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer/testAnalyzer?force=true

HTTP/1.1 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

{ 
  "error" : false, 
  "code" : 200, 
  "name" : "_system::testAnalyzer" 
}

Hide response body

shell> curl -X POST --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/collection <<EOF
{ 
  "name" : "testCollection" 
}
EOF

shell> curl -X POST --header 'accept: application/json' --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/view <<EOF
{ 
  "name" : "testView", 
  "type" : "arangosearch", 
  "links" : { 
    "testCollection" : { 
      "analyzers" : [ 
        "testAnalyzer" 
      ] 
    } 
  } 
}
EOF

shell> curl -X DELETE --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer/testAnalyzer?force=false

shell> curl -X DELETE --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/analyzer/testAnalyzer?force=true

HTTP/1.1 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
x-content-type-options: nosniff

Show response body

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