[nodebb-plugin-dbsearch] DB Search Plugin

Sp4rkR4t

It returns nothing no matter what search term I use. Will double check everything else is up to date.

EDIT: Yup working now, my nodebb was in need of updating.

finid

This is a great first step for a search plugin. Any chance this is going to be extended to have a similar topic feature, ala Stack Overflow?

Nicekiwi

Would be nice to be able to click on the search results, and have them formatted nicely. right now I cant click on the Topic title in the list of results. Only the small 'posted' link on the right will take me to the topic.

psychobunny

hey @baris I think this one quietly passed but congrats for winning plugin weekend

julian

Hahhaha with a total entry count of 1.

<baris>

@ezra-sharp I modified the templates yesterday so you can click on the results now.

@psychobunny @julian WOOT I won.

moreMix

Anyone search with chinese or asia characters?
I just can't get any result from searching chinese key word
whatever i reindex or restart nodebb , still get nothing.

moreMix

@moreMix said:

Anyone search with chinese or asia characters?
I just can't get any result from searching chinese key word
whatever i reindex or restart nodebb , still get nothing.

bad news......~~ it seems to be redis problem^^,

julian

@moremix Yes, Reds is not compatible with non-latin characters, which is why it is no longer bundled with NodeBB. There may be an elasticsearch plugin released soon, and that may support Chinese...

moreMix

@julian Thanks! Hope the plugin will be get this done.
Btw, it's posible to change redis to mongoDB can be support chinese easy enough? If it so, would be good.

julian

Currently, we do not have tools that support migrating an existing NodeBB installation from Redis to MongoDB (or vice versa)...

Scuzz

Any chance to implement searching with symbols?

So say if someone has used hashtag, #ScuzzIsAwesome for example, and we could search for that hashtag. At the moment searching with a symbol does not display any results.

julian

Much like how Reds doesn't work with non-latin characters, I'm pretty sure it excises out symbols too

Scuzz

@julian I'm on MongoDB, thought it might be different.

julian

I thought it would be, actually, since Mongo uses fulltext search. However, keep in mind you have to explicitly enable it per mongo install, it is not enabled by default:

(github.com)

^ Specifically, step 7.

Scuzz

Yeah I already have that.
I thought it would have been some sanitation within the db plugin that stopped searching for symbols.
Ok, with more testing it only happens with # and ?
Could this be something to do with URLs?

julian

@scuzz I think you may be right about that one.....

https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/issues/1195

theon

@julian Hi! I was interested to know more details about why Redis is not compatible with non-latin characters. I though Redis just takes arbitrary bytes as values and you store text encoded however you like (UTF-8 for example).

theon

Ah, I think I understand now. It doesn't support searching for non-latin chars, but it does support storing them?

julian

@theon Redis does, yes, but by itself, the server does not come with fulltext search capability. To do that, we use a package called Reds, which catalogues and indexes information by phonetic sounds, and only covers the latin charset.