topic Integrating Search with external resource in Alfresco Archive

Integrating Search with external resource

leecarls — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:53:55 GMT

I would like to search functionality to search for external resource as well either via SOLR or Nutch integration.How to do it for Alfresco Share?

Re: Integrating Search with external resource

andy — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:46:35 GMT

Hi

Search implementations are pluggable you get the SearchParameters and have to return a result set.
The implementations are wired up in Spring config.
The main question is what node ref are you going to return for docs not in Alfresco?

See LuceneQueryLanguageSPI and where it is used if you want to extend this.

This is exactly what we are doing as part of our current work to integrate SOLR.

Andy

Re: Integrating Search with external resource

leecarls — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:49:30 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I just want to have an internal search and another option to search for an external repository.

I'm still quite new to Alfresco Share. Could you give a more detail code snippets/config as an example?

The current search implementation still would be remain. Thus I can't replace it.

I'm referring to the Search and Advance search function in the repositry section.

From the wiki I failed to find any guideline on how does this search mechanism is wired, probably this part is considered an an internal architecture?

Anyway, from my understanding the search button was wired via yahoo bubbling ui event and invoke a uri to fetch the repository. The return format is in JSON format.

The questions is if I were to wire a SOLR to Share, then this uri would be a solr uri?
If yes, then this uri should return a json format compatible with Share. Not sure thought the Solr default json is compatible or not. Otherwise, any pointer for the format beside the one embedded on share\components\search\search.js (onReady: function Search_onReady())

and advsearch.js (method onSearchClick: function ADVSearch_onSearchClick(e, obj))

Finally for the external data indexing, then I've do integrate it with solr is it?