SWIRL SEARCH 1.7

[sidprobstein]

SWIRL SEARCH 1.7

This version incorporates feedback around UI and hosting usability.

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New Features

🔹 The new qs URL parameter provides a synchronous response, with no need to poll or handle a redirect.

qs accepts the same arguments as the q parameter:

localhost:8000/swirl/search/?qs=knowledge+management

localhost:8000/swirl/search/?qs=knowledge+management+software+NOT+practice

localhost:8000/swirl/search/?qs='knowledge+management'+software+NOT+practice&providers=news,email,companies

The result_mixer can be specified as well:

localhost:8000/swirl/search/?qs=knowledge+management&result_mixer=DateMixer

Only the first page of results are provided. Use the next_page link in the info.results block to access additional pages.

More details: Getting synchronous results with the qs URL Parameter

🔹 Django User permissions are now enforced on SearchProvider, Search and Result objects.

More details: Permissioning Users

Changes

🔹 swirl.py now supports a logs command that will output all log files to the console

swirl-search% python swirl.py logs
__S_W_I_R_L__1_._7______________________________________________________________

tail -f logs/*.log - hit ^C to stop:

==> logs/django.log <==
127.0.0.1:58635 - - [02/Dec/2022:19:27:10] "GET /admin/" 200 8932
...etc...

Issues Resolved

🔹 key error: 'searchprovider_rank' when processing results with GenericResultProcessor

🔹 PostgreSQL driver Psycopg2 issues

The PostgreSQL connector has been removed from [swirl.connectors.init]](../swirl/connectors/init.py) to avoid warnings, and the documentation has been updated.

Known Issues

🔹 SWIRL won't highlight terms that have preceeding or trailing quotes

For example 'hello or 'hello'. These may be quite acceptable to search engines as phrase searches. This will be fixed in a future release.

🔹 Creating searches from a browser with q= can sometimes create two Search objects.

This is because of browser prefetch. Turn off Chrome prefetch. Turn off Safari prefetch

Please report any issues with this to support.

Upgrading

⚠️ Version 1.7 requires database migration. Details: Upgrading SWIRL

Documentation

• Quick Start
• User Guide

Support

🔹 Create an Issue if something doesn't work, isn't clear, or should be documented

🔹 Email: [email protected] with issues, requests, questions, etc - we'd love to hear from you!

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This discussion was created from the release SWIRL SEARCH 1.7.