Hi,
I'm interested in taking part in Google Summer of Code and project
"tuscany-scadomain-search" [1] sounds interesting to me.
I've made a quick look inside domain manager web app and Apache Lucene
and made few assumptions for a start. I defined three main areas which
project should cover and they are indexing, searching and presentation.
Having those areas separeted allows us to write modular code and test it.
1. Indexing
- Indexing should include all available contributions. File names as
well as their contents (except non readable files like Java classes)
should be indexed. Every indexed item should have link to its
contribution parent.
- After adding, updating or deleting contribution from domain manager
web application appropriate items should be reindexed.
- We may also consider having connections between indexed items, ie. we
could scan composite files to acquire children names and build reversed
links, so every indexed item (script, Java class etc.) could have
connection to its composite parents.
2. Searching
- Search feature would be accessible via SCA domain manager web
application. It should allow to:
-- simply search for files by name
-- search files content
-- filter - search inside specified contribution or composite
- Maybe we should consider candies like Ajax hints while typing search
phrase?
- More research one Apache Lucene could provide more searching ideas.
3. Presentation
- Each search result should be presented using name and link to
contribution which it belongs to. If it's viewable (it's not Java class
etc) then simple preview feature for such item should be enabled.
Obviously matched text should be highlighted (as Google does).
- If information about composite parents for this items would be
accessible then such composites also should be listed.
This quick draft is direction which I'll take while creating proposal.
It appears to be interesting project, especially it allows to explore
new areas (everything beyond bindings in Tuscany, Lucene). There is
still much place to improve (like other features) so any comments are
welcome.
Thanks,
Wojtek
[1] -
http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009#tuscany-scadomain-search
