MarkLogic 12 EA 1 Product Documentationentity.dictionaryLoad
entity.dictionaryLoad( path as String, uri as String, [options as String[]] ) as null
Summary
Load an entity dictionary from the filesystem into the database in the appropriate format.
Usage Notes
The entity dictionary should be a text file containing one line per dictionary entry. Each line (entry) must consist of the following tab delimited fields, in the order shown: identifier, normalized text, matching text, entity type. For more details on the meaning of each field, see cts.entity.See Also
- 'Persisting an Entity Dictionary' in the Search Developer's Guide
- Creating a Dictionary From Text in the Search Developer's Guide
- entity.dictionaryInsert
- cts.entityDictionaryParse
Example
// Assume "/data/example.txt" contains the following data:
//
// 11208172 Nixon Nixon person:head of state
// 11208172 Nixon Richard Nixon person:head of state
// 11208172 Nixon Richard M. Nixon person:head of state
// 11208172 Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon person:head of state
// 11208172 Nixon President Nixon person:head of state:person
// 08932568 Paris Paris administrative district:national capital
// 09145751 Paris Paris administrative district:town
// 09500217 Paris Paris imaginary being:mythical being
declareUpdate();
const entity = require('/MarkLogic/entity');
entity.dictionaryLoad('/space/rest/ent-dict.txt','/ontology/people');
// The URI "/ontology/people" now contain an entity dictionary with
// four entities (11208172 with 5 alternative matching texts, and the
// three entities 08932568, 09145751, and 09500217 with the same matching text.