[wildfly-dev] Local Search for the Admin Console

[Jason T. Greene]

Sounds good to me, as long as you are confident in the stability of the version we upgrade to.

> On Mar 19, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Harald Pehl <hpehl at redhat.com> wrote:
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> During the F2F meeting in Brno Heiko and I started a little experiment: Local search for the Admin Console. The idea is to have a search index in the browser's local storage which is used to enable a "search as you type" feature. 
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> With the introduction of RBAC, all views were annotated with resource addresses. We reuse this information to setup an index over those addresses. The description of the r-r-d operation is extracted, tokenized and stored in the index. In addition it's possible to programmatically assign keywords to selected views. Keywords are a way to boost views in the search results. We did that for prominent views like the deployment browser.   
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> The index is built lazily when the user enters the search for the first time. In a typical environment this takes only a few seconds. Once the index is ready, it is stored in the local storage using the language, the operation mode (standalone / domain) and the model version as key. The size of the index is about 70 KB (for domain mode).
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> Under the hood the index is built using [1]. As a little extra you can reach the local search using a shortcut (Cmd+. / Ctrl+.) - therefore [2] is used. 
> 
> I found some time to polish the local search and am quite happy with the result. I'd like to add this feature to WildFly 8.0.1. If you want to take a look, grab the latest snapshot from [3] and replace the default console resources under <WF_HOME>/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/as/console/main/.
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> What do you think?
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> [1] https://github.com/olivernn/lunr.js
> [2] https://github.com/ccampbell/mousetrap
> [3] https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=snapshots&g=org.jboss.as&a=jboss-as-console&v=2.3.0-SNAPSHOT&e=jar&c=resources
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