Sphinx Search Engine & Python API

Question

I am trying to use Sphinx Search Engine with their Python API. The installation went fine. But when I use their Python API I do not get the complete result set. I only get the ID's? But when I use their ./search binary in ./bin I get the entire indexed content.

When using cpp ./search binary -

./search test

1. document=1, weight=1, group_id=1, date_added=Sat Sep 11 07:42:38 2010, title=2
    id=1
    group_id=1
    group_id2=5
    date_added=2010-09-11 07:42:38
    title=test one
    content=this is my test document number one. also checking search within phrases.

But when I use the Python API, I get -

>>> import sphinxapi
>>> client = sphinxapi.SphinxClient()
>>> client.SetServer('127.0.0.1', 9312)
>>> client.Query('test')
{'status': 0, 'matches': [{'id': 1, 'weight': 1, 'attrs': {'date_added': 1284171158, 'group_id': 1, 'title': 2}}, {'id': 2, 'weight': 1, 'attrs': {'date_added': 1284171158, 'group_id': 1, 'title': 3}}, {'id': 4, 'weight': 1, 'attrs': {'date_added': 1284171158, 'group_id': 2, 'title': 1}}], 'fields': ['content'], 'time': '0.022', 'total_found': 3, 'warning': '', 'attrs': [['group_id', 1], ['date_added', 2], ['title', 3]], 'words': [{'docs': 6, 'hits': 6, 'word': 'test'}], 'error': '', 'total': 3}

How do I get the string fields like 'title' or 'content' as part of the result set?

Answer 1

Although it is possible to do, I don't think it's a good idea to store the "source" in sphinx. Sphinx is very fast for a dedicated search engine only (giving you just IDs and maybe ranking scores - if you need it).

Btw, Official SphinxSearch API is hardly updated, you can actually use MySQL driver/modul (e.g. pymysql). Following is an example:

import pymysql
db = pymysql.connect(host='127.0.0.1',port=9301,user='',passwd='',charset='utf8',db='')
cur = db.cursor()
qry='SELECT id,weight() FROM idx_name WHERE MATCH(\'"your Query"/1\') LIMIT 10 OPTION ranker=SPH04'
cur.execute(qry);row = cur.fetchall()
print(row)
cur.close();db.close()