Interface SearchParameters

Whether the author section should be included into the search. The author section contains the names of the contributors in the Catalogue.

Whether the package section should be included into the search. The package section contains the text fields of a package entry in the Catalogue.

Whether the portal section should be included into the search. The portal section contains the text of the portal pages.

Whether the topics section should be included into the search. The topics section contains the text fields of the topics in the Catalogue.

Whether the sections are requested explicitly. If the value is false then all default sections are searched. Otherwise the sections to be searched have to be specified with additional parameters.

The number of hits maximally returned. Larger values will be reduced to 256. Lower values will be replaced by the default value.

The offset for paging. The accompanying parameter max contains the page size. This parameter contains the first hit to be returned. If a negative number is passed in then it is replaced by 0. If the offset is larger than the number of actual hits then the list of hits will be empty.

The words or search expressions to query for.