Marks an Entity annotated class as a FTS3 entity. This class will have a mapping SQLite FTS3 table in the database.

FTS3 and FTS4 are SQLite virtual table modules that allows full-text searches to be performed on a set of documents.

An FTS entity table always has a column named rowid that is the equivalent of an INTEGER PRIMARY KEY. Therefore, an FTS entity can only have a single property annotated with PrimaryKey, it must be named rowid and must be of INTEGER affinity. The property can be optionally omitted in the class but can still be used in queries.

All properties in an FTS entity are of TEXT affinity, except the for the 'rowid' property.

Example:

@Entity
@Fts3
data
class Mail (
@PrimaryKey
@ColumnInfo(name = "rowid")
val rowId: Int,
val subject: String,
val body: String
)

Summary

Public constructors

Fts3(tokenizer: String, tokenizerArgs: Array<String>)
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Public properties

String

The tokenizer to be used in the FTS table.

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Array<String>

Optional arguments to configure the defined tokenizer.

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Public constructors

Fts3

Fts3(tokenizer: String = TOKENIZER_SIMPLE, tokenizerArgs: Array<String> = [])

Public properties

tokenizer

val tokenizerString

The tokenizer to be used in the FTS table.

The default value is FtsOptions.TOKENIZER_SIMPLE. Tokenizer arguments can be defined with tokenizerArgs.

If a custom tokenizer is used, the tokenizer and its arguments are not verified at compile time.

See SQLite tokenizers documentation for more details.

Returns
String

The tokenizer to use on the FTS table. Built-in available tokenizers are FtsOptions.TOKENIZER_SIMPLE, FtsOptions.TOKENIZER_PORTER and FtsOptions.TOKENIZER_UNICODE61.

See also

tokenizerArgs

val tokenizerArgsArray<String>

Optional arguments to configure the defined tokenizer.

Tokenizer arguments consist of an argument name, followed by an "=" character, followed by the option value. For example, separators=. defines the dot character as an additional separator when using the FtsOptions.TOKENIZER_UNICODE61 tokenizer.

The available arguments that can be defined depend on the tokenizer defined, see the SQLite tokenizers documentation for details.

Returns
Array<String>

A list of tokenizer arguments strings.