Hi Robin, I have been trought pretty much the same evaluation trip (and share your findings). I ended writting a basic database- base search dingie that works fine for small documents sets ( < 1k documents ). For bigger sets, I'll rather install Tomcat + Lucene and expose Lucene trough XMLRPC using Jython.
You can get a sample TG app that excersize the indexer here: http://www.checkandshare.com/TG_INDEX/indexer.zip The README.txt inside the zip explains how to setup/run the demo. I plan to write a tutorial explaining the approach, but time ain't my friend. Cheers Ronald On May 12, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Robin Haswell wrote: > > Hey guys > > Let's face it, every application on the web these days need some > form of > search, and as far as I can see, TG + SO/any ORM is going to make that > tricky. > > So I was wondering, should we be thinking about a portable way of > providing search for TG apps? Or at least, I think we should > provide an > integration method for something which is quite easily obtainable, if > not shipped with TG itself. > > I think we have at least two options: > > > 1. PyLucene (http://pylucene.osafoundation.org/) > > Pros > ---- > > * Stable, well-maintained project > * Core engine used in a billion different things > * Lots of packages > > Cons > ---- > > * Appears to be a Java hack > * Stems from a Java project > * Did I mention Java? > * Looks a bit heavyweight > > > 2. XapWrap (http://divmod.org/projects/xapwrap) > > Pros > ---- > > * Looks quite simple to use > * Very Pythonic > * Under active development > * Cool name > > Cons > ---- > > * Somewhat immature at the moment > * Not full-featured (eg no stemming - do we care?) > * Current documentation appears to consist of a few docstrings > > > Personally I would prefer XapWrap, however I need a search engine > right > now and for internal reasons I'm going to give PyLucene a spin. I'll > report back what I think of it. > > Anyway that's my $0.02 - I hope we can have a good discussion about > this. > > -Rob > > > ________________________________ Ronald Jaramillo mail: ronald AT checkandshare DOT com blog: http://www.checkandshare.com/blog --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
