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Whoosh 0.3 release notes
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* Major improvements to reading/writing of postings and query performance.
* Changed default post limit (run size) from 4 MB to 32 MB.
* Finished migrating backend-specific code into ``whoosh.filedb`` package.
* Moved formats from whoosh.fields module into new whoosh.formats module.
* DocReader and TermReader classes combined into new IndexReader interface.
You can get an IndexReader implementation by calling Index.reader().
Searcher is now a wrapper around an IndexReader.
* Range query object changed, with new signature and new syntax in the default
query parser. Now you can use ``[start TO end]`` in the query parser for an
inclusive range, and ``{start TO end}`` for an exclusive range. You can also
mix the delimiters, for example ``[start TO end}`` for a range with an
inclusive start but exclusive end term.
* Added experimental DATETIME field type lets you pass a
``datetime.datetime`` object as a field value to ``add_document``::
from whoosh.fields import Schema, ID, DATETIME
from whoosh.filedb.filestore import RamStorage
from datetime import datetime
schema = Schema(id=ID, date=DATETIME)
storage = RamStorage()
ix = storage.create_index(schema)
w = ix.writer()
w.add_document(id=u"A", date=datetime.now())
w.close()
Internally, the DATETIME field indexes the datetime object as text using
the format (4 digit year + 2 digit month + 2 digit day + 'T' + 2 digit hour +
2 digit minute + 2 digit second + 6 digit microsecond), for example
``20090817T160203109000``.
* The default query parser now lets you use quoted strings in prefix and range
queries, e.g. ``["2009-05" TO "2009-12"]``, ``"alfa/bravo"*``, making it
easier to work with terms containing special characters.
* ``DocReader.vector_as(docnum, fieldid, astype)`` is now
``IndexReader.vector_as(astype, docnum, fieldid)`` (i.e. the astype argument
has moved from the last to the first argument), e.g.
``v = ixreader.vector_as("frequency", 102, "content")``.
* Added whoosh.support.charset for translating Sphinx charset table files.
* Added whoosh.analysis.CharsetTokenizer and CharsetFilter to enable case and
accent folding.
* Added experimental ``whoosh.ramdb`` in-memory backend.
* Added experimental ``whoosh.query.FuzzyTerm`` query type.
* Added ``whoosh.lang.wordnet`` module containing ``Thesaurus`` object for using
WordNet synonym database.