[sword-devel] Q re search indexes

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Ah, read more closely... You are asking about creating search indices
for DOWNLOAD.

There is no good answer to this.  We don't officially support
downloadable search indicies.  Some frontends have chosen to support
this on their own and they each have their own methods of doing such. 
My preference would be for them to discontinue this practice and create
the search indices on demand on the user device, as all other frontend
do.  I understand the reasoning behind having these available for
download when creating the search indices on older mobile devices 10
years ago wasn't the speediest operation, but now it likely will take
less time than downloading on many mobile networks.

So, in summary, what I described previously (below) will create the
search index for a module.  Where it's placed for some mobile apps to
able to download varies and at least one mobile app requires it to be in
a subfolder on crosswire.org-- not in your own download repo.

Troy

On 2/4/19 5:01 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> SWORD support searching with or without a search index and has 3
> methods for maintaining any search index.  The implementation depends
> on which index system option is turned on at configuration time when
> building (default is clucene; ximian is also supported).  The calls are:
>
> virtual signed char SWModule::createSearchFramework(
> 		void (*percent) (char, void *) = &nullPercent,
> 		void *percentUserData = 0);
> virtual void SWModule::deleteSearchFramework();
> virtual bool SWModule::hasSearchFramework();
>
> http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/include/swmodule.h
>
> There is a simple command line utility which does nothing more than
> call SWModule::createSearchFramework on a module which you might find
> bundled with whatever binaries you are using.  The tool is called:
> mkfastmod
>
> http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/utilities/mkfastmod.cpp
>
>
>
>
> On 2/4/19 4:32 PM, Dudeck, John wrote:
>> Sorry for what might be a frequently asked question, but I can't find
>> it on the Crosswire wiki:
>>
>> I am working on creating our own in-house repository. How are we
>> supposed to create the search indexes for download?
>>
>> AndBible has a button for downloading the index, which works on some
>> modules but not on others.
>>
>> I've looked on the various ftp repositories, but don't see anything
>> that looks like search indexes.
>>
>> Can anybody give me a pointer on this?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> John Dudeck
>> Programmer at Editions Cle                             Lyon, France
>> john.dudeck at sim.org                            john at editionscle.com
>> --
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>>  what programmers do." -- Alan Cooper
>>   
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