How to access ACTUAL MySQL search score from result object?

[ursomniac]

I thought that 'watson_rank' would copy over the score that you get from the fulltext search, however it appears to be something completely different. I can't see anything in the result object that points to the actual MySQL score for that object. Am I missing something?

Update (sort of answering my own question):

Well, I was first missing that the search is done in BOOLEAN mode, not NATURAL LANGUAGE mode (it would be nice to be able to select which mode to use), but I still don't understand the hard-coded weighting function (3, 2, *1) for (title, description, content) ... Ideally that should be changeable either in settings, or as an option to the search() call. Extra-ideally, it would be FANTASTIC if you could also weight on content_type_id as well.

[etianen]

watson_rank is indeed the score from the fulltext search. Because three columns are searched, the result is weighted so:

• title * 3
• description * 2
• content * 1

On 26 June 2017 at 13:24, Bob Donahue notifications@github.com wrote:

I thought that 'watson_rank' would copy over the score that you get from the fulltext search, however it appears to be something completely different. I can't see anything in the result object that points to the actual MySQL score for that object. Am I missing something?

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