Getting versioned and unversioned docs in the same search

Question

Hi folks,
I want to do the following search:
Get all unversioned documents and all versions of versioned documents that meet an specific criteria (attribute or content qualification) and that are in an specific folder (the document itself or its family object).
For instance, I have the following PublicObjects in folder /public/test (consider "attr" is any attribute):
* DocA.txt - document - attr = 'X'
* DocB.txt - document - attr = 'Y'
* DocC.txt - family
- DocC.txt version 1 - document - attr = 'X'
- DocC.txt version 2 - document - attr = 'Y'
I want to build a search that returns every doc in this folder where attr = 'X'. It should return docA.txt and DocC.txt version 1.
I tried a lot of things, I don't think it would be useful to relate all I did. I think my problem is in the fact that the family object is foldered, not the document itself, and I want to find unversioned documents too in the same search. How would you do the search?
Thanks a lot.
Daniel.

Answer 1

I managed to do it through the following code:
SearchClassSpecification scp = new SearchClassSpecification();
scp.addSearchClass(PublicObject.CLASS_NAME, "PO");
scp.addSearchClass(Document.CLASS_NAME, "DOC");
scp.addResultClass("DOC");
FolderRestrictQualification frq = new FolderRestrictQualification();
Folder f = session.getRootFolder();
frq.setMultiLevel(true);
frq.setStartFolder(f);
frq.setSearchClassname("PO");
JoinQualification jqFolder1 = new JoinQualification();
jqFolder1.setLeftAttribute("PO", null);
jqFolder1.setRightAttribute("DOC", Document.FAMILY_ATTRIBUTE);
JoinQualification jqFolder2 = new JoinQualification();
jqFolder2.setLeftAttribute("PO", null);
jqFolder2.setRightAttribute("DOC", null);
SearchClause scJoinFolder = new SearchClause();
scJoinFolder.setLeftSearchQualification(jqFolder1);
scJoinFolder.setRightSearchQualification(jqFolder2);
scJoinFolder.setOperatorType(SearchClause.OR);
SearchClause scFolder = new SearchClause();
scFolder.setLeftSearchQualification(frq);
scFolder.setRightSearchQualification(scJoinFolder);
scFolder.setOperatorType(SearchClause.AND);
(following the AttributeQualification, etc...)
The issue is that I was trying to use Family instead of PublicObject. I did a lot of crazy things, including an outter-join between Document and Family. It worked for admin users, but not for common users, because iFS adds some access control clauses in the SQL query that did not take into account my outter-join.
Now it looks much simpler and elegant. And works for all users. :-)
Thanks.