[xwiki-devs] [Wild Idea] Live Search

Hi, I think the new search results page (the main search one not the lucene one) has some limitations that could be improved: - it doesn't scale with large number of documents (if you do a search that returns a lot of documents) - it doesn't allow refining your search easily - the information presented take up more vertical space than needed (currently 3 lines instead of one) and thus less results can be presented - it could be reused by other pages which require listing documents such as the SpaceIndex which lists all pages in a given space. It's actually currently reused but as a consequence the SpaceIndex page isn't nice at all and doesn't scale. Would it make sense to: - have a livetable - display all docs by default when you arrive on the search page (ie no filter set) - make the current search field a field bound to the livetable and that filters that table when text is typed inside - remove the need for the spaces combo box since it would be a filter field in the livetable already - same for the wiki field Pros: - all the limitations listed above are resolved - the search becomes live (that's a + compared to other solutions since I haven't seen other apps do this) - it unifies the way we use livetable across XE - if we do this we could also modify the AllDocs page to have the global search field. Basically wherever we display documents we could also include this search field. Main Question: - would the live search be costly? With Lucene search probably not, with the DB search, it could (for ex if document content isn't indexed). WDYT? Thanks -Vincent