The FieldExpression Class

Class FieldExpression allows you to compute customized content snippets for each result returned by a search.

FieldExpression is defined in the module google.appengine.api.search.

1. Constructor
2. Properties:
   • name
   • expression

Constructor

The constructor for class FieldExpression is defined as follows:

class FieldExpression(name, expression)

Construct an instance of class FieldExpression.

For example,

FieldExpression(name='content_snippet',
                expression='snippet("very important", content)')

constructs a field expression that returns a computed field named content-snippet with each search result, containing HTML snippets of the content field that match the query "very important".

Arguments

name

Name of computed field.

expression

Expression to evaluate and return.

Result value

A new instance of class FieldExpression.

Exceptions

TypeError

A parameter has an invalid type, or an unknown attribute was passed.

ValueError

A parameter has an invalid value.

Properties

An instance of class FieldExpression has the following properties:

name

Name of computed field.

expression

String containing expression to evaluate and return.