[Zope] Re: 3rd Party Search Engines

[Seb Bacon]

Hi Bert :-)

Do you want to query 3rd party repositories, or use 3rd party tools to 
index content inside Zope?

In the former case, I have successfully wrapped a search against a 
Sharepoint server by overriding searchResults to query more than one 
source.  The tricky point is that there will not be a 1-1 mapping 
between indexes in both catalogs. Something like this is very brittle, 
e.g. sensitive to unexpected API changes in the 3rd party server.  With 
sharepoint I was able to query it using their dav/sql interface.

In the latter case, depending on the engine you could query Zope through 
familiar interfaces for its content - for example, can't you just point 
Autonomy at a website and ask it to spider it?  Once again you will have 
some problems with mapping between indexes.

In either case, I doubt it would be possible to build a general-purpose 
"integration" framework (and I'm not aware of one which exists); you'd 
have to write a new one for each 3rd party engine.

Regards,

seb

Bert Vanderbauwhede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are there any (ZCatalog-like) products that can be used to integrate 3rd
> party search engines (such as Autonomy, Convera, or Verity) with Zope?
> 
> 
> Bert Vanderbauwhede...