On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:00:56 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hann...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> This PR softens the case-sensitivity rules in Javadoc searches by including > results of case-insensitive search if a case-sensitive yields no or very few > results. > > Changes also include some restructuring of the search.js code along with > minor changes that improve compliance with the specification (Segments > separated by `_` are ranked the same way as segments of CamelCase > identifiers, and matches on such segments are ranked lower than matches for > whole identifiers, which wasn't always the case previously) > > The `TestSearchScript.java` test, which has been disabled with the removal of > Nashorn, has been updated to run without failure. In the process, I noticed > that the recent IndexBuilder|Writer|Item refactoring, comparators have been > unified to the point that the same item order is used in HTML index pages and > the search index JSON files. However, there used to be slight differences in > the sorting between the two. This change restores the original order by > adding two simple search index comparators to `IndexBuilder.java`. > > API documentation generated with this PR applied can be viewed and tested > here: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8244535/api.01/ @hns, could you recommend (at least several different) example searches that would clearly show the advantages of this proposal over [JDK 15](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/15/docs/api/index.html)? Although the are examples in tests, they are contrived (naturally). It would be nice to see how this improves search on a real codebase, such as the JDK codebase. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1354
