Using Lucene’s search server to search Jira issues by Michael McCandless.
From the post:
You may remember my first blog post describing how the Lucene developers eat our own dog food by using a Lucene search application to find our Jira issues.
That application has become a powerful showcase of a number of modern Lucene features such as drill sideways and dynamic range faceting, a new suggester based on infix matches, postings highlighter, block-join queries so you can jump to a specific issue comment that matched your search, near-real-time indexing and searching, etc. Whenever new users ask me about Lucene’s capabilities, I point them to this application so they can see for themselves.
Recently, I’ve made some further progress so I want to give an update.
The source code for the simple Netty-based Lucene server is now available on this subversion branch (see LUCENE-5376 for details). I’ve been gradually adding coverage for additional Lucene modules, including facets, suggesters, analysis, queryparsers, highlighting, grouping, joins and expressions. And of course normal indexing and searching! Much remains to be done (there are plenty of nocommits), and the goal here is not to build a feature rich search server but rather to demonstrate how to use Lucene’s current modules in a server context with minimal “thin server” additional source code.
Separately, to test this new Lucene based server, and to complete the “dog food,” I built a simple Jira search application plugin, to help us find Jira issues, here. This application has various Python tools to extract and index Jira issues using Jira’s REST API and a user-interface layer running as a Python WSGI app, to send requests to the server and render responses back to the user. The goal of this Jira search application is to make it simple to point it at any Jira instance / project and enable full searching over all issues.
Of particular interest to me because OASIS is about to start using JIRA 6.2 (the version in use at Apache).
I haven’t looked closely at the documentation for JIRA 6.2.
Thoughts on where it has specific weaknesses that are addressed by Michael’s solution?