Search disappearing in new Google App Engine Python 3 environment?
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Steve Sauder
Aug 17, 2020, 8:59:55 AM8/17/20
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Hi all! Just wanted to ask a quick question! I've been using GAE for several years now, and am looking at moving my code from Python 2.7 to the new Python 3 structure, and have been working my way through the documentation on updating, and have run into something that I think is a blocker, and a really big question mark for me. This is the apparent lack of full text search support in the new Python 3 environment. I make fairly heavy use of full text searching in my project and the existing Search API is completely and utterly perfect for what I need. Is there any plans for supporting full text capabilities in Python 3 moving forward, without having to call of to some third party implementation like Elastic Search? I mean, COME ON! You're GOOGLE!! You INVENTED full text search, and now you're pushing your developers off to third party search tools?!? This makes no sense.
Please tell me this is a temporary issue, and that the Search API will be updated to work with Google App Engine moving forward. For now, I'm going to have to stay with Python 2.7, because I need that functionality.
Thanks!
Steve.
Mary (Google Cloud Support)
Aug 19, 2020, 10:03:00 PM8/19/20
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Hi Steve,
Within the Python 3 runtime, some GAE services that were previously bundled were removed ot support a full idiomatic Python experience[1] and is recommended to migrate to the recommended solution of ElasticSearch on GCE[2]. There is currently a feature request on our public issue tracker[3] requesting the Search API to be made available in Python 3.x. As it is a feature request, there is no timeline nor any guarantee it will be implemented in the future. We recommend to star this feature request to receive any future updates and also upvote the issue to increase invisibility.
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