ckanext-search-tweaks

Set of tools providing control over search results, sorting, etc.

Requirements

Compatibility with core CKAN versions:

Installation

To install ckanext-search-tweaks:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

    . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
   

2. Install it on the virtualenv

    pip install ckanext-search-tweaks
   

3. Add search_tweaks to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini).

4. Restart CKAN.

Usage

This extensions consists of multiple plugins. search_tweaks is the main (major) one, that must be enabled all the time. And depending on the set of secondary (minor) plugins, extra features and config options may be available. Bellow are listed all the plugins with their side effects.

search_tweaks

Provides base functionality and essential pieces of logic used by all the other plugins. Must be enabled as long as at least one other plugin from this extension is enabled.

• Switches search to edismax query parser if none was specified

• Enables ckanext.search_tweaks.iterfaces.ISearchTweaks interface with the following methods:

    def get_search_boost_fn(self, search_params: dict[str, Any]) -> Optional[str]:
    	"""Returns optional boost function that will be applied to the search query.
    	"""
    	return None
  
    def get_extra_qf(self, search_params: dict[str, Any]) -> Optional[str]:
    	"""Return an additional fragment of the Solr's qf.
        This fragment will be appended to the current qf
    	"""
    	return None
  

CLI

ckan search-tweaks -
	Root of all the extension specific commands.
	Every command from minor plugins is registered under this section.

Config settings

# Rewrite the default value of the qf parameter sent to Solr
# (optional, default: value of ckan.lib.search.query.QUERY_FIELDS).
ckanext.search_tweaks.common.qf = title^5 text

# Search by misspelled queries.
# (optional, default: false).
ckanext.search_tweaks.common.fuzzy_search.enabled = on

# Maximum number of misspelled letters. Possible values are 1 and 2.
# (optional, default: 1).
ckanext.search_tweaks.common.fuzzy_search.distance = 2

search_tweaks_query_relevance

Config settings

# Which backend to use in order to collect information about dataset
# relevance for the particular search query. Possible values are:
# "redis-permanent", "redis-daily"
# (optional, default: redis-daily).
ckanext.search_tweaks.query_relevance.backend = redis-permanent

# How long(in days) information about dataset visits will be stored in order to
# update relevance of dataset in search query.
# (optional, default: 90).
ckanext.search_tweaks.query_relevance.daily.age = 90

# Solr boost function with $field placeholder that will be replaced by
# the correspoinding field name
# (optional, default: "scale(def($field,0),0,2)").
ckanext.search_tweaks.query_relevance.boost_function = recip($field,1,1000,1000)

# Prefix of the numeric field defined in Solr schema. This field will hold
# dataset's relevance for the given query.
# (optional, default: query_relevance_).
ckanext.search_tweaks.query_relevance.field_prefix = custom_score_

search_tweaks_field_relevance

Config settings

# Solr boost function for static numeric field
# (optional, default: None).
ckanext.search_tweaks.field_relevance.boost_function = pow(promoted_level,2)

search_tweaks_spellcheck

Exposes search suggestions from the Solr's spellcheck component to CKAN templates. This plugin doesn't do much and mainly relies on the Solr's built-in functionality. Thus you have to make a lot of changes inside Solr in order to use it:

• Configure spellcheck component. Search for <searchComponent name="spellcheck" class="solr.SpellCheckComponent"> section and add the following item under it:

    <lst name="spellchecker">
    	<str name="name">did_you_mean</str>
    	<str name="field">did_you_mean</str>
    	<str name="buildOnCommit">true</str>
    </lst>
  

• Add spellcheck component to the search handler (<requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">):

    <arr name="last-components">
    	<str>spellcheck</str>
    </arr>
  

• Define spellcheck field in the schema. If you want to use an existing field(text for example), change <str name="field">did_you_mean</str> value to the name of the selected field instead.

    <field name="did_you_mean" type="textgen" indexed="true" multiValued="true" />
  

• Note: skip if you've decided to use an existing field in the previous step.
  Copy meaningfull values into this field:

    <copyField source="title" dest="did_you_mean"/>
    <copyField source="notes" dest="did_you_mean"/>
    <copyField source="res_name" dest="did_you_mean"/>
    <copyField source="res_description" dest="did_you_mean"/>
    <copyField source="extras_*" dest="did_you_mean"/>
  

After that you have to restart Solr service and rebuild search index:

ckan search-index rebuild

Now you can use spellcheck_did_you_mean helper that returns better search query when available instead of the current one. Consider including search_tweaks/did_you_mean.html fragment under search form.

Developer installation

To install ckanext-search-tweaks for development, activate your CKAN virtualenv and do:

git clone https://github.com/DataShades/ckanext-search-tweaks.git
cd ckanext-search-tweaks
python setup.py develop
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Tests

Apart from the default configuration for CKAN testing, you have to create ckan_search_tweaks Solr's core, replace its schema with ckanext/search_tweaks/tests/schema.xml and make changes to solrconfig.xml that are required by search_tweaks_spellcheck.

To run the tests, do:

pytest --ckan-ini=test.ini ckanext/search_tweaks/tests

License

AGPL