On 07.03.2013 20:58, Brion Vibber wrote:
>> 3) The indexer code (without plugins) should not know about Wikibase, but it 
>> may
>> have hard coded knowledge about JSON. It could have a special indexing mode 
>> for
>> JSON, in which the structure is deserialized and traversed, and any values 
>> are
>> added to the index (while the keys used in the structure would be ignored). 
>> We
>> may still be indexing useless interna from the JSON, but at least there 
>> would be
>> a lot fewer false negatives.
> 
> Indexing structured data could be awesome -- again I think of file
> metadata as well as wikidata-style stuff. But I'm not sure how easy
> that'll be. Should probably be in addition to the text indexing,
> rather than replacing.

Indeed, but option 3 is about *blindly* indexing *JSON*. We definitly want
indexed structured data, the question is just how to get that into the LSearch
infrastructure.

-- daniel

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