to support the new time parser and search functions in YaCy a high
precision detection of date and time on the day is necessary. That
requires that the time zone of the document content and the time zone of
the user, doing a search, is detected. The time zone of the search
request is done automatically using the browsers time zone offset which
is delivered to the search request automatically and invisible to the
user. The time zone for the content of web pages cannot be detected
automatically and must be an attribute of crawl starts. The advanced
crawl start now provides an input field to set the time zone in minutes
as an offset number. All parsers must get a time zone offset passed, so
this required the change of the parser java api. A lot of other changes
had been made which corrects the wrong handling of dates in YaCy which
was to add a correction based on the time zone of the server. Now no
correction is added and all dates in YaCy are UTC/GMT time zone, a
normalized time zone for all peers.
introduce FederateSearchManager handling search heuristic to external systems via specific FederateSearchConnectors,
which provide the query() functionallity, the translation to YaCy schema .toYaCySchema() and the search() routine to deliver results to searchevents, which is generally implemented in Abstract connector.
The manager enforces now a min 15s delay between calls to external systems.
Besides the OpensearchConnector a SolrFederateSearchConnector is available. It uses a additional config file for fieldname translation.
default heuristicopensearch.conf:
- openbdb.com removed - seems not longer to deliver results
- config via solrconnector to datacite.org added (large technical library archive)
it acts on YMarks but YMark interface seems not maintained,
for future features (e.g. query memory) BookmarkDB is the likely choice to expand, besides the crawlstart bookmark also the result bookmark icon now adds to BookmarkDB.
The YMark related code is (for now) left untouched so both tables are updated.
*) will try other ports if YaCy standard ports are not available
*) distinguish between internal and external port (not sure if this
works 100%)
Still to add: propery in config to enter own external port (in case of
manually configured NAT)
used parameter &cat=image is obsolete and returns no results
- remove &cat=image and &cat=href references
- remove &tenant= references (unused)
Use contentdom=image and inurl: parameter to make showPicture link display something (open in new window because of used inurl modifier changes original query)
done. This makes it possible to search all documents on a single domain
even if no search word is given. This is in particular interesting when
searching for all images on a single domain.
- remove verify=cacheonly from admin screen search box to use the configured values
(otherwise definition overwrites configured behavior and is used for following searches what might give unexpected/confusing different results compared to using /yacysearch )
- with search modifier /heuristic a request is send to all configured opensearch target systems (old /heuristic/blekko modifier not longer valid)
- this allows to use opensearch heuristic on individual search request (in contrast to configuration HEURISTIC_OPENSEARCH=true which sends a osd request on all global searches
- the index.html searchoption text adjusted to be displayed only if option configured
- add Archive-It to predefined systems
The collection field (can be filled i.e. in Crawl Start) can be used to
add categories to YaCy index entries. The usage of that field was
restricted to solr searches and post argument filters as implemented in
commit f7571386a3.
This commit extends collections to a full navigation option in the
standard YaCy search interface. The field is not active by default but
can be activated easily in the /ConfigSearchPage_p.html servlet (just
check the 'Collection' facet field). Collections can now be used for (at
least) two purposes:
- to provide search tenants (through post argument collection)
- to provide self-made category navigation
Search requests may now have (independently from switched on or off
collection facet) a "collection:<collection-name>" modifier attached;
firthermore collection names may use disjunctions using the '|' pipe
symbol. For example, this is a valid search request:
www collection:user|proxy
- adopted all YaCy administration pages to new framework
- created new search page layout (working, but still work in progress)
- old skin files are fully appliable! (and looking good)
- target is a new style based on bootstrap examples, see /test.html
- icons in YaCy may be replaced by glyphicons (to be done)
admin, we expect that the user wants to check recently crawled document
to ensure that recent crawl results are inside the search results, we do
a soft commit here.
works fine to restrict language for local solrSearches.
More work needs to be done to make rwi/remote searches respect the modifier.language restriction.
- since specific heuristic Twitter & Blekko is not longer available or redundant with OpenSearchHeuristic,
adjusted ConfigHeuristic to use OpensearchHeuristic settings only.
For this the default OSD search target list is made available (copied) by default and the other configs are removed.
- the return of QueryGoal.getOriginalQueryString includes the queryModifier, which are held separately in a modifier object,
but in most (all) cases just the query term is expected, clarified and renamed it to QueryGoal.getQueryString which returns
just the search term (if needed a .getOrigianlQueryString could be implemented in Queryparameters, adding the modifiers)
- started to adjust internal html href references from absolute to relative (currently it is mixed).
For future development we should prefer relative href targets (less trouble with context aware servlets)
- all non-dht targets (previously separated into 'robinson' for dht-like
queries and 'node' for solr queries) are non 'extra' peers, which are
queries using solr
- these extra-peers are now selected using a ranking on last-seen,
peer-tag-matches, node-peer flags, peer age, and link count. The ranking
is done using a weight and a random factor.
- the number of extra peers is 50% of the dht peers
- the dht peers now exclude too young peers to prevent bad results
during strong growth of the network
- the number of dht peers (and therefore extra-peers) is reduced when
the memory of the peer is low and/or some documents still appear in the
indexing-queue. This shall prevent a peer from deadlocks when p2p
queries are made in a fast sequence on weak hardware.
regular expressions cause no results. Usage of '*' followed by a dot or
any expression will now cause that this expression is used as a filetype
search.
not-flushed Solr cache is now handled in this way:
- it is smaller by default
- an Solr-internal process is started to flush the cache periodically
(this does NOT clean the cache, just removes old objects)
- a Solr-external process (the standard YaCy cleanup-process) now has
direct access to the solr internal cache and flushes them completely.
The time frame for such a flush is defined by the cleanup-process
frequency, by default 10 minutes.
