[Koha-devel] Search Engine Changes : let's get some solr

[Chris Cormack]

On 15 November 2010 10:14, LAURENT Henri-Damien
<henridamien.laurent at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Le 14/11/2010 18:32, Chris Cormack a écrit :
>> On 15 November 2010 06:25, LAURENT Henri-Damien
>> <henridamien.laurent at biblibre.com> wrote:
>>> Le 11/11/2010 15:19, Ian Walls a écrit :
>>>> Ah, right, I'd forgotten about that switch, as it doesn't work with
>>>> authorities, and I can't do rebuild_zebra.pl <http://rebuild_zebra.pl>
>>>> -a -b -x -z in my crontab.
>>>>
>>>> So, the ISO2709 character limit is not actually an issue at all, then.
>>>>
>>> Well, actually, it is in koha.
>>> Since Koha gets iso2709 from a zebra search.
>>> If it Koha would take marcxml, it would be even slower to get search
>>> results with the Search.pm as it stands now... And let me know if you
>>> know a librarian who would like that.
>>
>> Yep, there is utterly no doubt C4::Search needs a rewrite. This was a
>> goal of 3.4. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in my proposal, and we had
>> some volunteers to work on it.
>>
>> I still think it is nessecary, but I do think it is better to do it in
>> a way that allows for a structure like
>> C4/Search.pm
>> C4/Search/Nutch.pm
>> C4/Search/Zebra.pm
>> C4/Search/Solr.pm
>>
>> Or using searchengine or something else to achieve the same.
> Well.
> Our code is based on Data::SearchEngine,
> All we would have to do is writing a wrapper for Zebra, Nutch Whatever.
> And try and use that in the C4::Search.
> We took the burden to refactor the C4::Search.
> We wanted to test and make that work with Solr.
> If someone is volunteering for a Data::SearchEngine::Zebra, feel free...
>
Yes, please do (someone). Because this will make it much much more
likely the Solr work is accepted into master for 3.4

Chris