swh.search 0.8.1

Software Heritage search service

swh-search

Search service for the Software Heritage archive.

It is similar to swh-storage in what it contains, but provides different ways to query it: while swh-storage is mostly a key-value store that returns an object from a primary key, swh-search is focused on reverse indices, to allow finding objects that match some criteria; for example full-text search.

Currently uses ElasticSearch, and provides only origin search (by URL and metadata)

Dependencies

Python tests for this module include tests that cannot be run without a local ElasticSearch instance, so you need the ElasticSearch server executable on your machine (no need to have a running ElasticSearch server).

Debian-like host

The elasticsearch package is required. As it's not part of debian-stable, another debian repository is required to be configured

Non Debian-like host

The tests expect:

• /usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk/bin/java to exist.
• org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch to be in java's classpath.