--- a/src/js/serializers/JSONSerializer.js	Wed Oct 26 12:40:24 2011 +0200
+++ b/src/js/serializers/JSONSerializer.js	Wed Oct 26 12:41:14 2011 +0200
@@ -71,4 +71,36 @@
     }
     
     return ret_array;
-}
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+};
+
+/* breaks a string in words and searches each of these words. Returns an array
+   of objects with the id of the annotation and its number of occurences.
+   
+   FIXME: optimize ? seems to be n^2 in the worst case.
+*/
+IriSP.JSONSerializer.prototype.searchOccurences = function(searchString) {
+  var ret = { };
+  var keywords = searchString.split(/\s+/);
+  
+  for (var i in keywords) {
+    var keyword = keywords[i];
+    
+    var found_annotations = []
+    found_annotations = found_annotations.concat(this.searchAnnotations(keyword, "", ""));
+    found_annotations = found_annotations.concat(this.searchAnnotations("", keyword, ""));
+    
+    for (var j in found_annotations) {
+      var current_annotation = found_annotations[j];
+      
+      if (!ret.hasOwnProperty(current_annotation.id)) {
+        ret[current_annotation.id] = 1;
+      } else {
+        ret[current_annotation.id] += 1;
+      }
+      
+    }
+
+  };
+  
+  return ret;
+};
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--- a/unittests/tests/JSONSerializer.js	Wed Oct 26 12:40:24 2011 +0200
+++ b/unittests/tests/JSONSerializer.js	Wed Oct 26 12:41:14 2011 +0200
@@ -98,4 +98,34 @@
       
       
     });
+    
+    test("test occurence count", function() {
+    var ser = new IriSP.JSONSerializer(this.dt, "../test/test.json");
+            
+      ser._data = { annotations : [
+      {"content": {        
+        "description": "professeur", 
+        "title": "garrigou"
+        }, "id" : 1 },
+      { "content": {        
+        "description": "interview", 
+        "title": "Revue de presse - Hervé Gardette"
+      }, "id" : 2},
+      {"content": {        
+        "description": "concept", 
+        "title": "idée"
+      }, "id" : 3},
+      { "content": {        
+        "description": "", 
+        "title": "sans titre"
+      }, "id" : 4}
+      ]};
+            
+      // warning : these tests may not work with ie8, safari 4, etc.      
+      equal(Object.keys(ser.searchOccurences("garrigou")).length, 1, "first request works");
+      deepEqual(ser.searchOccurences("garrigou"), {1 : 1}, "returned object is correctly defined");
+      
+      equal(Object.keys(ser.searchOccurences("garrigou interview")).length, 2, "second request works");
+      equal(Object.keys(ser.searchOccurences("garrigou idée interview")).length, 3, "third request works");
+    });
 };
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