[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2013-05-07 Thread Brian Erickson
All, thanks for responses. I had not properly considered or reviewed Giewiki. That looks like 90% of what I need! Thanks VERY much for putting it back on my radar. I am developing the web2pyTW with a friend - but I think that now, we will investigate the feasibility of porting the GIE code to we

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2013-05-01 Thread andrej burja
hi i was testing solr and whoosh now i'm using whoosh because it is python based and i can easily port my application (no need to intall java, tomcat etc) newer had any real problems most of the time i spend figuring out how to use stemmer/lematization (not for english), but this is not part

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2013-05-01 Thread Derek
That's an interesting project. Have you taken a look at GIEWIKI? It's "tiddlywiki that runs on Google App Engine" and it is amazing. You can see it running here: http://giewiki.appspot.com/ It will work with most any tiddlywiki setup. The default of GIEWiki is more of a blog with comments, but y

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2013-04-30 Thread Brian Erickson
Thanks, Massimo. (by the way, my project is to write a program in the style of http://tiddlywiki.com/ in web2py.) Any full text search would work for my needs. Is there a better (simpler) option you could recommend? On Monday, April 29, 2013 12:20:12 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > This i

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2013-04-28 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
This is all I have on the topic: https://gist.github.com/mdipierro/5479683 On Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:42:45 UTC-5, Brian Erickson wrote: > > Hi Select, I'm resurrecting this topic to hopefully get a clue on how to > implement this. Any help appreciated. > I got the Whoosh source, unpacked and

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2013-04-28 Thread Brian Erickson
Hi Select, I'm resurrecting this topic to hopefully get a clue on how to implement this. Any help appreciated. I got the Whoosh source, unpacked and put just the folder 'whoosh' into site-applications. I created the files you provided search.py and search/index.html. On visiting seach.html web2p

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2010-10-15 Thread selecta
you wold have to concatinate all fields you want to be indexed for a record or define multiple fields in the woosh index setup but it should be possible On Oct 15, 3:21 am, mdipierro wrote: > I do not think it is possible because it is file based. > > On Oct 14, 8:19 pm, Richard wrote: > > > > >

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2010-10-14 Thread mdipierro
I do not think it is possible because it is file based. On Oct 14, 8:19 pm, Richard wrote: > is it practical to use this on GAE? > > On Oct 13, 11:34 pm, selecta wrote: > > > it's fast, it's pure python (just dump in to web2py/site-packages) and > > simple to use > > >http://tlc2.hg.sourceforge.

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2010-10-14 Thread Richard
is it practical to use this on GAE? On Oct 13, 11:34 pm, selecta wrote: > it's fast, it's pure python (just dump in to web2py/site-packages) and > simple to use > > http://tlc2.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/tlc2/tlc2/file/4387b942c7ab/cont...http://tlc2.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/tlc2/tlc2/file/4387b94

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2010-10-14 Thread selecta
i have not tested that, but i could be :/ On Oct 13, 3:09 pm, David Marko wrote: > I have run throught the whoosh docs and it seems to be > straightforward. But isn't there problem with concurency when you open > the search index(open_dir) in controller for every request? the same > situation is

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2010-10-13 Thread David Marko
I have run throught the whoosh docs and it seems to be straightforward. But isn't there problem with concurency when you open the search index(open_dir) in controller for every request? the same situation is there when index is being updated by concurent user input from submited forms. --- e.g. --

[web2py] Re: Anyone used WHOOSH as search engine with web2py?

2010-10-13 Thread selecta
it's fast, it's pure python (just dump in to web2py/site-packages) and simple to use http://tlc2.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/tlc2/tlc2/file/4387b942c7ab/controllers/search.py http://tlc2.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/tlc2/tlc2/file/4387b942c7ab/views/search/index.html :) On Oct 12, 8:38 pm, David Marko