Search engine options

[mahearn (Mahearnpad)]

Hi

Is anyone out there using another search engine other than Funnelback? I’m thinking in particular about ElasticSearch.

I’d like to hear about how you’ve implemented it, and any information that would be useful to know from your experience.

thanks
Michael

[Bart (Bart Banda)]

There is a user called paul11 that seems to use it, he is trying to do some REST integrations with their API:

REST Resource Asset: Best way to send data in Request body

Matrix Version: 5.2 So I am looking to construct queries to send to a server to retreive some data. Here is an example of a query that I am looking to use. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html I was thinking of using a REST Resource, but it seems like that Matrix doesn’t allow to use “Request Body” with the GET verb. Is jQuery AJAX my only option? I am looking to avoid it if possible due to cross domain issues. I know JSONP can hel…

[nic.thiele (Nic)]

We use a third party search provider, SearchBlox, which uses Elasticsearch as its core engine. If you want the CMS to serve the search results look for a common denominator between the integration options provided by Squiz Matrix (and there are many) and the search service. We’re using an transformation (XSLT) on the XML but most search services offer search results as an RSS feed which can also be an easy option using Squiz Matrix’s RSS Data Source.