Can this be put into non-geek? As a user it is not evident what is being achieved, how it is being achieved, or how it is being changed. How advanced users on wiki can use and superuse the functionality expressed..
Regards, Billinghurst On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to describe the refactoring we are doing on SearchEngine/Prefix > search. The goal of it is to bring prefix search into SearchEngine API > and use the unified API for prefix searches, which will also allow to > use new ElasticSearch completion suggester in many places where prefix > search is done. > Please comment if you see any problem in this or have any suggestions. > > The current plan is as follows: > > 1. SearchEngine gets the following new API functions: > public function defaultPrefixSearch( $search ); > public function completionSearch( $search ); > public function completionSearchWithVariants( $search ); > > defaultPrefixSearch is for simple prefix searches (namespace lists, > special pages, etc.). > completionSearch* is for completions that need scoring, fuzzy matching, > and so on. > > 2. There's also internal function: > protected function completionSearchBackend( $search ) > > That is what SearchEngine implementation (like CirrusSearch) will > override. SearchEngine base class deals with namespace handling, result > ordering, etc. > > 3. TitlePrefixSearch and StringPrefixSearch will be deprecated (but stay > in code almost unchanged for now) and use of SearchEngine APIs is > recommended, such as SearchEngine::defaultPrefixSearch() or > completionSearch() depending on whether simple or advanced handling is > desired. > > 4. Hooks PrefixSearchBackend and PrefixSearchExtractNamespace will be > deprecated, and overriding completionSearchBackend() and > normalizeNamespaces() in SearchEngine is recommended instead. For now, > these hooks will be supported by base SearchEngine implementation, but > not by CirrusSearch. > > The task for this is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121430, it also > links the patches as they are now (still work in progress). > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
