16 Aug
2012
16 Aug
'12
10:52 p.m.
Hi Savitha,
On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:17 PM, savitha sundaramurthy wrote:
Hi Vincent,
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Thanks for the details. The plan sounds good.
I would have loved to be able to see your work in action but last time I tried your server
was down. Any way I could test it?
Re JIRA I have created a component named "SOLR Search" for your to use when
creating jira issues in the Contrib project:
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCONTRIB
Have you already created any JIRA issues for the past work or not?
Thanks
-Vincent
Hi Guys,
I haven't been that closely the SOLR GSOC work and it would be great to
see where we stand.
I'd love to know the following:
* What's the status of the code; is it following our best practices (code
style/passing checkstyle, unit tests, functional tests)?
I can say, 80% of code is complete. I tried to follow the best practices of
xwiki development. Still there are few places with bad code and needs to be
refactored. Few classes have cyclomatic complexity errors, that need to be
refactored too. API is missing in few places.
Am planning to work on the code refactoring for another two days and make
sure checkstyle passes.
Unit tests and Functional tests are in a bad state, and need to be worked
on.
* What's the level of the UI in term of
readiness, compared to our current
one?
UI is ready. Compared to the current lucene plugin, solr has more features
and so a little complex UI.
The new Advanced Search UI will have:
- Filtered search ( Filter on Spaces, Language, Type, File type etc..)
- Custom query boost
- Faceted Search
- Need some work to be done on links, at times they are giving
weird results.
- Creation date and date need to be changed to something human
readable instead of dates.
(i.e. Today, Last Week, Last Month, Year..)
- Debug query
- Debug search result
- Sorting the results ( Relevance, Date, Author etc..)
- Its one way now,only descending results are active for the above
sort types, need to add ascending order too.
I have kept the Administration UI to minimal features like indexing
wiki/space, looking into solrconfig.xml and schema.xml files. Solr Server
details like versions, components, files used.
Two days of work around UI. Need to check with Caty on the new Advanced
Search interface.
* Do we have all the features of the current
Lucene plugin (including
improvements already listed in JIRA, we should verify that they can be
implemented with the current code if not already there)
Almost all the features supported by Lucene are supported by Solr. The only
exception at this time is Auto Suggest in the quick search bar, am working
on that.
Can you give the link to JIRA, I can verify and let you know whether the
features can be implemented with the solr component.
* Could we do drop-in replacement of the current
search?
Its not ready for immediate replacement. It does have all the features
provided by
lucene plugin. But the Advanced search features are having few
issues, need to calibrate and tweak the search request.
In general, how much work remains to be able to
commit this in platform
and start bundling it and using it in XE?
Work remaining:
1. Fix checkstyle errors
2. Auto Suggest feature
3. Admin UI
4. Minor bugs in Facet search to be fixed
5. Search calibration
6. Unit test cases and Functional test cases.
Planning to do the following this week
1. Fix checkstyle errors
2. Auto Suggest feature
3. Fix the minor bugs.
4. Search calibration
5. Complete the documentation.
Is it possible to have JIRA for Solr component so that it will be easy to
track the bugs in future?