Search Portlet?

[tomhombergs]

Hi all,

is there a Search Portlet available for JBoss Portal? I imagine it should somehow (nightly?) invoke all portal pages and index their contents. The UI should show a search box and display a result list with links to the matching portal pages.

Searches in Google and JBoss Community produced this question quite often, but no answers (which might be interpreted as a "no", though) :(.

[albertodominguezs]

Hi Tom,

I didn't get any help or info. However, while I was debugging a custom LoginModule I found some really useful lines inside the org.jboss.portal.core.cms.ui.admin.CMSAdminPortlet.java.

Hope these lines work for you.

package org.jboss.portal.core.cms.ui.admin;

// ...

public class CMSAdminPortlet extends JBossPortlet
{

// ...

private void internalDoView(JBossRenderRequest rReq, JBossRenderResponse rRes)
 throws CMSException, PortletException, IOException
 {

// ...

else if (CMSAdminConstants.OP_VIEWSEARCHRESULTS.equals(op))
 {
 rRes.setContentType("text/html");

 String textQuery = rReq.getParameter("search");
 FederatedQuery query = new FederatedQuery(textQuery);

 JCRQueryConverter converter = new JCRQueryConverter();

 List files;
 try
 {
 Command searchCommand = CMSService.getCommandFactory().createSearchCommand((JCRQuery)converter.convert(query));
 files = (List)CMSService.execute(searchCommand);
 }
 catch (CMSException e)
 {
 e.printStackTrace();
 files = new ArrayList();
 }
 catch (QueryConversionException e)
 {
 files = new ArrayList();
 rReq.setAttribute("conversionError", Boolean.TRUE);
 }
 rReq.setAttribute("files", files);
 rReq.setAttribute("textQuery", textQuery);

 javax.portlet.PortletRequestDispatcher prd = getPortletContext().getRequestDispatcher(CMSAdminConstants.CMS_JSP_PATH + "/searchResults.jsp");
 prd.include(rReq, rRes);
 }

[tomhombergs]

Hi Alberto,

thanks for the reply. I guess the code you posted only searches the jboss-cms content, though.

However, I now built a custom solution using Apache Lucene as search engine. Sadly, it's not a generic solution but rather specific for our purposes.