The v2 search API provides a fast way of searching content within Confluence. We highly recommend that all plugin authors switch to this API where possible.

To illustrate how to use this API, we have included a simple code snippet for a basic search that:

• searches for all content labelled with administration in the space with key DOC.
• sorts these results with the latest modified content displayed first.
• limits the number of results to 10.

SearchQuery query = BooleanQuery.composeAndQuery(new LabelQuery("administration"), new InSpaceQuery("DOC"));
SearchSort sort = new ModifiedSort(SearchSort.Order.DESCENDING); // latest modified content first
SearchFilter securityFilter = SiteSearchPermissionsSearchFilter.getInstance();
ResultFilter resultFilter = new SubsetResultFilter(10);

Search search = new Search(query, sort, securityFilter, resultFilter);

SearchResults searchResults;
try
{
	searchResults = searchManager.search(search);
}
catch (InvalidSearchException e)
{
	// discard search and assign empty results
	searchResults = LuceneSearchResults.EMPTY_RESULTS;
}

// iterating over search results
for (SearchResult searchResult : searchResults.getAll())
{
    System.out.println("Title: " + searchResult.getDisplayTitle());
    System.out.println("Content: " + searchResult.getContent());
    System.out.println("SpaceKey: " + searchResult.getSpaceKey());
}

// total number of results found
System.out.println("Total number of results: " + searchResults.getUnfilteredResultsCount());

Further comments:

• Please ensure you include com.atlassian.confluence.search.v2.searchfilter.SiteSearchPermissionsSearchFilter in your search. This is a bundled filter that will handle permission checking and content filtering automatically for you.
• The number of results returned has been limited with the use of com.atlassian.confluence.search.v2.filter.SubsetResultFilter. This class efficiently filters search results during search time.
• The search is executed using searchManager.search(search). This invocation returns search results populated with data from your index.
  • To iterate over the search results returned, you can get a reference to the list of search results with searchResults.getAll() or an iterator to this list using searchResults.iterator().
  • Common information about a search result like title, body and space key can be extracted from the search result using getDisplayTitle(), getContent() and getSpaceKey() respectively. For more accessors see the API documentation for com.atlassian.confluence.search.v2.SearchResult.
  • This invocation does not go to the database to construct any search results. If you want com.atlassian.bonnie.Searchable objects from the database to be returned by the search, call searchManager.searchEntities(search) instead.
• An exception com.atlassian.confluence.search.v2.InvalidSearchException is thrown when either:
  • there is an error mapping a v2 search object to the corresponding Lucene search object, or
  • no mapper could be found to map one of the search objects. (The mapper plugin responsible for mapping this search may have been uninstalled.)
• You should simply discard the search if an exception is thrown as described above.

RELATED TOPICS

• Remote API Specification

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