Pier Search Component

[stéphane ducasse]

excellent.
Lukas I will try to get some guys defining an advanced query  
component based on the previous
meta model oriented query engine....
but let's that I start to doubt about the abilities of certain  
students. Few are like you :)

Stef

On 10 févr. 06, at 20:19, Lukas Renggli wrote:

> I published a new snapshot of pier (http://mc.lukas-renggli.ch/pier)
> that replaces the query engine with a simple full-text search. If you
> have Scriptaculous loaded it even updates life while you type the
> expression, that demoes its speed.
>
> Have fun,
> Lukas
>
> On 10 Feb 2006, at 18:14, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>
>> Hi Chad,
>>
>>> Search functionality is key to the cms project I am working on.
>>> However, the search component in Pier seems to be broken for me.  I
>>> get this error:
>>
>> the search of Pier is very sophisticated, probably much more than
>> anybody wants. It is more like a query engine and supports its own
>> (strange) syntax that you obviously don't follow (therefor the  
>> strange
>> error, sorry) ;-)
>>
>> See PRQueryTests to see some examples:
>>
>>     " finds pages with a table "
>>     self kind = 'Table'
>>
>>     " finds pages with external links to iam.unibe.ch "
>>     (self kind = 'External Link') & (self url matches:  
>> 'iam.unibe.ch')
>>
>> To do a full text-search as you like, you might want to use the short
>> form like, but you need the quotes to make the parser happy:
>>
>>     'foo'
>>
>> I see that many people struggle with that (powerful) search  
>> engine. It
>> is very easy to come up with something much simpler, it is just a
>> matter of adding a new visitor class and to implement a few simple
>> methods to, if I remember this is described in our paper. I will come
>> up with a simple solution this weekend and send you a  
>> notification, if
>> time allows.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Lukas
>>
>>
>>> SmaCCParserError: Token not expected
>>>
>>>     * MARelationParser(SmaCCParser)>>reportErrorMessage:
>>>
>>>           self  a MARelationParser
>>>           temps
>>>           aString       'Token not expected'
>>>           inst vars
>>>           scanner       a MARelationScanner
>>>           currentToken  {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           errorToken    {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           stateStack    an OrderedCollection(1 13)
>>>           nodeStack     an OrderedCollection(#test)
>>>
>>>     * MARelationParser(SmaCCParser)>>reportError:
>>>
>>>           self  a MARelationParser
>>>           temps
>>>           anInteger     0
>>>           inst vars
>>>           scanner       a MARelationScanner
>>>           currentToken  {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           errorToken    {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           stateStack    an OrderedCollection(1 13)
>>>           nodeStack     an OrderedCollection(#test)
>>>
>>>     * MARelationParser(SmaCCParser)>>handleError:
>>>
>>>           self  a MARelationParser
>>>           temps
>>>           anInteger     0
>>>           inst vars
>>>           scanner       a MARelationScanner
>>>           currentToken  {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           errorToken    {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           stateStack    an OrderedCollection(1 13)
>>>           nodeStack     an OrderedCollection(#test)
>>>
>>>     * MARelationParser(SmaCCParser)>>performParsingLoop
>>>
>>>           self  a MARelationParser
>>>           temps
>>>           action        0
>>>           actionType    3
>>>           inst vars
>>>           scanner       a MARelationScanner
>>>           currentToken  {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           errorToken    {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           stateStack    an OrderedCollection(1 13)
>>>           nodeStack     an OrderedCollection(#test)
>>>
>>>     * MARelationParser(SmaCCParser)>>parse
>>>
>>>           self  a MARelationParser
>>>           temps
>>>           inst vars
>>>           scanner       a MARelationScanner
>>>           currentToken  {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           errorToken    {(5,4,#(30))}
>>>           stateStack    an OrderedCollection(1 13)
>>>           nodeStack     an OrderedCollection(#test)
>>>
>>> Is there an easy fix for this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Chad
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lukas Renggli
>> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
>>
>>
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>
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