SID-02055: indexed search with attachments?

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.1	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryMissingFunctionality	Server OS:	Centos 7	Last update:	10 years ago

What is the current approach to searching content including attachments? I'd like to upgrade an old 4.x installation, but have not been able to make SearchEngineKinoSearchPlugin work on newer versions and the site is not useful without a content search. Is something better available now?

-- Les Mikesell - 2015-04-15

Discussion and Answer

The SearchEngineKinoSearchAddOn is outdated, it needs some TLC to bring it up to the latest TWiki. Nobody has come forward yet to sponsor this work. You can hire one of the TWikiConsultants if this functionality is critical to you.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-04-16

That seems unlikely at this point. Can't you just put back the interfaces that you removed so the old plugin will work?

-- Les Mikesell - 2015-04-17

Not that easy. A few versions back, TWiki changed the interface on how standalone CGI scripts interact with TWiki. The SearchEngineKinoSearchAddOn has a kinosearch script that needs to be fixed. If you are a developer I invite you to get involved, enhance the attachment search, and contribute the changes back to the TWiki community.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-04-17

My real goal is to move an old twiki installation on CentOS5 to a CentOS7 system to extend its life. I thought I'd update twiki as a matter of course, but that's not reasonable without maintaining the ability to search (and I'm shocked that anyone else would consider it, including yourself) It looks like a matter of building the back-rev kinosearch package on CentOS7 and fixing an assortment of syntax errors in twiki code (mostly qw's needing parens in the configure part) to just keep the old 4.x running with perl 5.16. Are there any test suites to do syntax checks over the bulk of the code to avoid other surprises with the newer perl?

-- Les Mikesell - 2015-04-17

You could run the unit tests, but you need a SVN checkout. See TestCasesTutorial.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-04-23

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