Hi Roman,

in the case of bibedit: there will be a "full" value in the field very
often when the user enters the field. What's your idea of how the
jQuery plugin should behave in such a situation?

An unrelated note: we probably still need another module (already
implemented in bibedit) for the "lookup" behaviour. This means: enter
an acronym -> the value of the field becomes the words the acronym
stands for. Or could this be done with your plugin, too?

Yours,
Marko

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Roman Chyla <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> I definitely agree on synchronizing our efforts - i checked some code
> inside cds before starting, but i wanted more. Victor started his
> autocomplete effort few days later after me, and we later discovered
> we both were working on the same.
>
> I will reply, excuse me if I miss some questions
>
>
> i checked other implementations:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=jquery+autocomplete&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
>
> my first go was with the first hit, but it while it worked, it was
> harder to add more functionality to it
>
> i didn't like the 3 hit, and i thought the jQueryUI would be better as
> there is wider community and newer version
>
> frontend is modified jQueryUI - autocomplete -- modified, because at
> certain point i hit a wall - i was implemententing everything like
> overrides (monkey-patching, i didn't want to touch the jQueryUi), but
> it was very hard and as i said, at one point, it wasn't possible to
> access certain objects without terrible hacks. so i rather forked the
> whole thing
> https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/rcarepo/browser/newseman/trunk/tmp/dumean/jqueryui/ui/jquery.ui.autocomplete-rca.js
>
> you may see better ways, which i haven't seen
>
> as for the backend, it is NOT java, but python (even if we use lucene
> - so yes, it is java, but inside python - that is important thing, and
> should be kept in mind)
>
> there are several implementations - not only keywords, try the
> fulltext, authors or display the index-6.html
> https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/rcarepo/browser/newseman/trunk/tmp/dumean/fulltext.py
>
> the communication is done via json, the structure is:
>
> [{'label': lepton, 'value': 'something=lepton', 'data': 'anything you
> want...'}, {...}]
>
> the 'keyword:lepton' thing you mentioned is to show that we can build
> a special query like: keyword:lepton OR abstract:lepton* -- just an
> example, besides things are easily configurable through hooks. look
> inside the html source and you will notice several functions and also
> the several backen urls
>
> you can see for yourself the code, before i have time to describe the API:
>
> whisper.py -- this does the searching
> keyword.py, fulltext.py.... - different adaptors of whisper.py for
> specifi purposes
> reindex.py - this builds the autocomple indexes
> index-6.html -- example of the better autocomplete (different than the 
> previous)
> js_included -- this is the part that is included by invenio into
> template (at runtime)
>
> and yes, the UI has a few glitches still, but i haven't found any
> jquery implementation of what was needed. but in my opinion, it is a
> flexible solution
>
> Cheers,
>
> roman
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Samuele Kaplun <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Il giorno mar, 08/06/2010 alle 17.18 +0200, Marko Niinimaki ha scritto:
>>> We discussed around noon that Roman will describe the API that his
>>> system is using. The back-end is currently Java, but we may want to
>>> interface it with Python in all the modules that you mentioned.
>>
>> OK I will wait to see the API. And hoping we can in the end agree on one
>> javascript front-end to use.
>>
>> BTW have you checked, as I was mentioning, JQuery UI implementation? How
>> do you compare it with the specific JS you decided to use? PROS? CONS?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>        Sam
>>
>>
>

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