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.
collections in search result. When selecting one of them in another
search, switch off the previously selected collection. This actually
turns the collection navigation modifier into a radio-button like
behaviour
- if less or equal of 8 facet options are present, they are shown by
default
- if more facet options are present, they are hidden
To view or hide all facets, just click on the facet header bar
for location nav facet of field coordinate_p does not return results, now using coordinate_p_0_coordinate as alternative to get facet counts. As the actual facet value is not used this should not harm any analysis (even if facet is a incomplete location).
If facet value is used in future likely *_geohash field could be introduced (for facet and other ... as transport value)
- date navigation
The date is taken from the CONTENT of the documents / web pages, NOT
from a date submitted in the context of metadata (i.e. http header or
html head form). This makes it possible to search for documents in the
future, i.e. when documents contain event descriptions for future
events.
The date is written to an index field which is now enabled by default.
All documents are scanned for contained date mentions.
To visualize the dates for a specific search results, a histogram
showing the number of documents for each day is displayed. To render
these histograms the morris.js library is used. Morris.js requires also
raphael.js which is now also integrated in YaCy.
The histogram is now also displayed in the index browser by default.
To select a specific range from a search result, the following modifiers
had been introduced:
from:<date>
to:<date>
These modifiers can be used separately (i.e. only 'from' or only 'to')
to describe an open interval or combined to have a closed interval. Both
dates are inclusive. To select a specific single date only, use the
'to:' - modifier.
The histogram shows blue and green lines; the green lines denot weekend
days (saturday and sunday).
Clicking on bars in the histogram has the following reaction:
1st click: add a from:<date> modifier for the date of the bar
2nd click: add a to:<date> modifier for the date of the bar
3rd click: remove from and date modifier and set a on:<date> for the bar
When the on:<date> modifier is used, the histogram shows an unlimited
time period. This makes it possible to click again (4th click) which is
then interpreted as a 1st click again (sets a from modifier).
The display feature is NOT switched on by default; to switch it on use
the /ConfigSearchPage_p.html servlet.
calculated from boostfields config, making sure title, description, keywords and content is always searched.
- apply change to solrServlet makes sure every remote query uses at least all locally defined boost fields for search
- apply to local solr search
- simplify select query by using QF defaults
This is intended for peers who want to participate in the P2P network but don't wish to load/fill-up their index with metadata of every received search result.
The DHT transfer is not effected by this option (and will work as usual, so that a peer disabling the new store to index switch still receives and holds the metadata according to DHT rules).
Downside for the local peer is that search speed will not improve if search terms are only avail. remote or by quick hits in local index.
To be able to improve the local index a Click-Servlet option was added additionally.
If switched on, all search result links point to this servlet, which forwards the users browser (by html header) to the desired page and feeds the page to the fulltext-index.
The servlet accepts a parameter defining the action to perform (see defaults/web.xml, index, crawl, crawllinks)
The option check-boxes are placed in ConfigPortal.html
stream the original to the search result thumb viewer. This has two
reasons:
- animated gifs cause 100% cpu and deadlocks in the jvm gif parser; a
known bug which is obviously not yet fixed
- animated gifs now appear in the search result also as animation
occurrences within the (web) page documents (not the document
last-modified!). This works only if the solr field dates_in_content_sxt
is enabled. A search request may then have the form "term on:<date>",
like
gift on:24.12.2014
gift on:2014/12/24
* on:2014/12/31
For the date format you may use any kind of human-readable date
representation(!yes!) - the on:<date> parser tries to identify language
and also knows event names, like:
bunny on:eastern
.. as long as the date term has no spaces inside (use a dot). Further
enhancement will be made to accept also strings encapsulated with
quotes.
- new switch 'isFacet' which causes that the usage of the vocabulary for
search facets is enabled or disabled. This shall be used for large
vocabularies sind searched in solr are extremely slow if facets for a
large set of alternative terms are generated
- new option to disable auto-enrichment from synonyms
- new option to add synonyms from another column when importing from csv
- automatically recognize double-occurrences in synonyms and bundling
terms for such synonyms
concurrently. When a RWI search result is flushed into the result set,
id does Solr Queries (which replaced the old-style Metadata Queries) and
they are possibly running concurrently to a previously startet Solr
search. Both methods may block each other with IO. To enhance the speed,
they are now serialized. Because the Solr search results may result in
better results using the more advanced and configurable Ranking methods,
this result is preverred over the RWI search result. However, remote RWI
search results are still feeded concurrently into the search result as
well.
removed preferred IPv4 in start options and added a new field IP6 in
peer seeds which will contain one or more IPv6 addresses. Now every peer
has one or more IP addresses assigned, even several IPv6 addresses are
possible. The peer-ping process must check all given and possible IP
addresses for a backping and return the one IP which was successful when
pinging the peer. The ping-ing peer must be able to recognize which of
the given IPs are available for outside access of the peer and store
this accordingly. If only one IPv6 address is available and no IPv4,
then the IPv6 is stored in the old IP field of the seed DNA.
Many methods in Seed.java are now marked as @deprecated because they had
been used for a single IP only. There is still a large construction site
left in YaCy now where all these deprecated methods must be replaced
with new method calls. The 'extra'-IPs, used by cluster assignment had
been removed since that can be replaced with IPv6 usage in p2p clusters.
All clusters must now use IPv6 if they want an intranet-routing.
- use CommonParams and DisMaxParams constants
- fix typo in get sort parameter
- getDocumentCountByParams redundant implementation and risk of not optimized call (row parameter unspecified) -> as only used from getCountByQuery removed from interface
formulated as edismax query but this was not set as query attribut. The
defType=edismax property needs a qf-field, so this was added as well. Do
not remove that field again! This fixes also a problem with title-unique
computation.
attribute in the <a> tag for each crawl. This introduces a lot of
changes because it extends the usage of the AnchorURL Object type which
now also has a different toString method that the underlying
DigestURL.toString. It is therefore not advised to use .toString at all
for urls, just just toNormalform(false) instead.
