Method

AppStreamPoolbuild_search_tokens

Declaration [src]

gchar**
as_pool_build_search_tokens (
  AsPool* pool,
  const gchar* search
)

Description [src]

Splits up a string into an array of tokens that are suitable for searching. This includes stripping whitespaces, casefolding the terms and removing greylist words.

This function is usually called automatically when needed, you will only need to run it explicitly when you need to check which search tokens the pool will actually use internally for a given phrase.

Parameters

search

Type: const gchar*

The (user-provided) search phrase.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: An array of utf8

(array zero-terminated=1): Valid tokens to search for, or NULL for error.

The array is NULL-terminated.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

Each element is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.