Re: [GMG-Devel] Want a new hook for a search plugin

[Tom Fay]

There's a bit of similarity between the two, insofar as they both make a whoosh 
index and write documents to it...

My code is currently working with the latest mediagoblin code, but doesn't work 
with 0.8.1 and earlier, as it relies on a couple of recent code changes. For 
example, on startup it uses the updated attribute of a MediaEntry to determine 
whether or not to re-index the entry.

There was an existing issue on trac,  
https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/960, so I've grabbed it. Praveen/Chris, 
if you have any questions or want to discuss this further then let's do it 
there. I'll look into adding a couple of more features, such as the ability to 
search for media by comments, and use celery to build the index on startup, 
before seeing if you want to add it to the core plugins.

Cheers,
Tom

 ---- On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:11:28 +0000 Christopher Allan Webber 
<address@hidden> wrote ---- 
 > Tom Fay writes:
 > 
 > > Hi Praveen and Christopher,
 > >
 > > I did read Praveen's report, and but I couldn't find a working plugin
 > > in your repos so wrote a simple one. I'd have liked to use a backend
 > > agnostic library like haystack, but it's closely tied to django so I
 > > went with the same whoosh backend as Praveen. It only handles media
 > > entries, which is sufficient for me at the moment, but it does index
 > > existing entries. It's fairly well UT'd but hasn't had much testing:
 > > AFAIK it's only used by me on a tiny instance!
 > >
 > > Christopher: I probably don't need a new plugin (I'm just using the
 > > wrap_wsgi one at the moment, at which point the db and celery is
 > > already setup). I'll take a look at the overlap between the functions
 > > of mine and Praveen's.
 > 
 > Great, look forward to seeing what comes out of it!
 >