GNIP 14 - New Search Backend (to use django haystack)

[David Winslow]

See the proposal on the wiki: https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/wiki/GNIP-14---New-Search-Backend-%28to-use-django-haystack%29

The data search already uses an ad-hoc json REST API which might be suitable for the basis of the one mentioned in this proposal.

Is there a good haystack backend we can easily include in the installer?  Solr can run in tomcat, right?

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David Winslow

OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/

[David Winslow]

I think this was meant for the public list.

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David Winslow

OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <jjoh...@opengeo.org> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:23 AM, David Winslow <dwin...@opengeo.org> wrote:
> See the proposal on the wiki:
> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/wiki/GNIP-14---New-Search-Backend-%28to-use-django-haystack%29
>
> The data search already uses an ad-hoc json REST API which might be suitable
> for the basis of the one mentioned in this proposal.

Yep, my goal is to expand on that ad-hoc json API (not strictly REST
because only GET requests matter), but to hook it up to haystack.

> Is there a good haystack backend we can easily include in the installer?
>  Solr can run in tomcat, right?

Haystack has a 'dummy' backend which just uses whatever database is
configured, so out of the box (installer) it would use postgres, and
in development mode, it would use sqlite. We _could_ set it up to use
solr and deploy that in tomcat, but it may be better to just provide
instructions on how to configure this in the docs and let users do
that themselves.

Jeff

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Indeed it was ...