MarkLogic Server 11.0 Product Documentationcts.estimate
cts.estimate( query as cts.query?, [options as String[]], [quality-weight as Number?], [forest-ids as (Number|String)[]], [maximum as Number?] ) as Number
Summary
Returns the number of fragments selected by a search. This can be used as a fast estimate of the number of results.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| query |
A cts:query specifying the search to perform. If a string
is entered, the string is treated as a cts.wordQuery of the
specified string.
|
| options |
Options to this search. The default is ().
See cts.search
for details on available options.
|
| quality-weight | A document quality weight to use when computing scores. The default is 1.0. |
| forest-ids |
A sequence of IDs of forests to which the search will be constrained.
An empty sequence means to search all forests in the database.
The default is (). In the XQuery version, you can use
cts:search with this
parameter and an empty cts:and-query to specify a
forest-specific XPath statement (see the
third
example below). If you
use this to constrain an XPath to one or more forests, you should set
the quality-weight to zero to keep the XPath document
order.
|
| maximum | The maximum value to return. Stop selecting fragments if this number is reached. |
Example
cts.estimate(cts.wordQuery("unsually"))
=> 10476