Snap Store Server

Full-text search in the find endpoint

Bug #1906804 reported by Francisco Jimenez Cabrera
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Snap Store Server
Fix Committed
Medium
Hasan Ammar

Bug Description

Hi,

This issue has been mentioned in our Charmhub dev weekly meeting.

Currently, when we use the find endpoint in the charmhub.io website, it's not searching for properties that we think are relevant.

As an example, the charm postgresql-k8s contains the world "kubernetes" in the summary and the description:
https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/charms/info/postgresql-k8s?fields=result.summary,result.description

These properties are not being used for searches:
https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/charms/find?q=kubernetes

Apparently right now is only searching by author name and package name, we think it should include the summary, the description and the platforms where the package is available.

Thank you.

See original description
Francisco Jimenez Cabrera (jkfran)
description: updated
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Bret Barker (noise) wrote :

I believe this is fixed and deployed to staging thus far, see:

https://api.staging.snapcraft.io/v2/charms/find?q=kubernetes

Changed in snapstore-server:
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Hasan Ammar (hasanammar)
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Daniel Manrique (roadmr) wrote :

Once the change is deployed we need to trigger "reindexing" of charms (and affected snaps), which is a simple database operation. Can be done on production today or early next week.

Changed in snapstore-server:
status: New → Fix Committed
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Toto Bille (tbmb) wrote :

Update:

The search in the new indexes works well. \o/

Next step would be to have the possibility to search through architectures, platforms etc. via the same mechanism.

So as a user I can go on charmhub.io and search for kubernetes, without having to play around with filters, and get a list of charms that are related to kubernetes (extracted from their description, platform, name or else)

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

It definitely doesn't make sense for full-text search to include the platform in general, but some other mechanism may be able to be devised.

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Toto Bille (tbmb) wrote :

this is a feature that would be mostly for the website as far as I am concerned. I am not sure about the "discoverability feature" that juju provides (juju find?).

Having a flag that would allow us to extend the search to a wider range of field would be fine.

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Bret Barker (noise) wrote :

I agree with William, a platform filter may make sense but not as part of the full-text search. There's a difference between looking for charms that are deployable to k8s vs charms for deploying kubernetes itself, so I'm not quite clear what the intent is for that.

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