[xwiki-devs] [Feedback] Search Requirements

Hi, We introduced in XWiki 4.3 a new experimental search based on Apache Solr [A] . Right now our Solr Search [B] is marked as experimental and I don't know how many of you got a chance to play a bit with it. In order for it to become default we need to make sure we are covering the major use cases. So in this mail we should provide some feedback on what is really needed from a relevance, user experience, performance, etc. point of view. I am very interested also in some general feedback on the Lucene Search: major problems you had with it and limitations. The following questions are mostly related to Solr Search: 1) The Solr implementation adds a 'Filtered Search'. Are all filters that are available now needed (wiki, space, type, filetype)? Are we missing some? What is the most important one? Should we have multiple select? properties, query boost, etc.) but I'm more interested, in production, what are some advanced or common use cases of search usage. IMO our Lucene implementation is too simplistic, but it would be a shame to add useless complexity to the Solr one if we really don't need it. On the other hand having a customizable search is a really nice thing. The customization part is kind of complex, but also the most powerful. I want to know how much would we need the ability to explicitly mention the types of results we want vs. excluding things, etc. 2) The Solr search adds a 'Sort' feature. What do you think about that? 3) Search result metadatas: should we display the relevance? What other information should be displayed besides name, location, type? 4) Other mentions. Having a generic search is more complex, than knowing exactly what your search needs to return. We need to make sure we don't add too many niche things while keeping the functionality satisfiable for general use cases. Thanks, Caty --------------- [A] http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki43#HExper… [B] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Solr+Search+Application