MarginaliaSearch/code/services-application/search-service

Search Service

This service handles search traffic and is the service you're most directly interacting with when visiting marginalia-search.com.

It interprets a "human" query and translates it into a request that gets passed into to the index service, which finds related documents, which this service then ranks and returns to the user.

The UI is built using JTE templates and the Jooby framework, primarily using its MVC facilities.

When developing, it's possible to set up a mock version of the UI by running the gradle command

$ ./gradlew paperDoll -i

The UI will be available at http://localhost:9999/, and has hot reloading of JTE classes and static resources.

Central classes

• SearchService receives requests and delegates to the appropriate services.

• CommandEvaluator interprets a user query and acts upon it, dealing with special operations like browse: or site:.

• SearchQueryIndexService passes a parsed search query to the index service, and then decorates the search results so that they can be rendered.

See Also

• features-search