Add-on ElasticSearch Essentials

[Daniel Hood]

Let's not derail this thread but I can't guarantee that's the order of events that will be followed. XenReviews = > 100,000 lines of code. This = < 1,000 lines of code (most of which I adapted from other non-XenForo projects).

I've been using ElasticSearch in other environments for over a year now. I've fiddled with autocompletion stuff, word/phrase suggestions, synonym support, etc for my "real"/"day" job. I just decided these things were very nice and there seems to be a lot of demand so I took an hour or two (To demonstrate, I acknowledged that @MattW had installed ES at 1:42, by 2:10 I had messaged him with a link to see the suggestion part included) to distract myself from larger projects to see if I could plug it into XenForo. That's also why despite great suggestions made from people I've let beta test, I haven't included much complexity (such as whitelisting words for the suggestions, getting synonyms to work, or really focused much time on improving the results of the suggestions).

 

[Mike Edge]

suggestions made from people I've let beta test

I didn't get to test

 

[Daniel Hood]

I posted inviting people to message me if they wanted to beta test it. Look a few posts back . That said, I already have a few so you're a little late but I'll possibly release it tomorrow. Wish someone could give me a suggestion on a price point for it

 

[empire]

Other Esses cost $30–$45, but they have more features. I might guess $20, with the price rising as more features are added.

 

[Mike Edge]

Other Esses cost $30–$45, but they have more features. I might guess $20, with the price rising as more features are added.

Yeah, I was thinking around $10 - $15, maybe $20 at most

 

[DroidOne]

I'd gladly spend ~$20 on this

 

[Daniel Hood]

Last night I was thinking about $20 in it's current form. Might raise the price as features increase though, whenever that happens. Glad you guys agree for the most part.

 

[Daniel Hood]

I went a little higher than originally planned ($30). I see a lot of potential for this add-on, especially if this gets implemented.

 

[Xon]

I went a little higher than originally planned ($30). I see a lot of potential for this add-on, especially if this gets implemented.

I'm really not happy with how I ended up extending XenES_Search_SourceHandler_ElasticSearch::executeSearch(). It works, and enables providing dynamic content type weighting. But what an ugly hack.

 

[Mike Edge]

I went a little higher than originally planned ($30). I see a lot of potential for this add-on, especially if this gets implemented.

Bit the bullet and bought this even thought I was hoping not to spend more then $20.00 Haven't gotten around to installing it yet though..

 

[HWS]

I'm really not happy with how I ended up extending XenES_Search_SourceHandler_ElasticSearch::executeSearch(). It works, and enables providing dynamic content type weighting. But what an ugly hack.

I assume as bad as extending the avatar generation (sizes & quality). Our suggestion for that is buried anywhere deep in the suggestions area since years. Hope you are more successful.

 

[Daniel Hood]

I'm really not happy with how I ended up extending XenES_Search_SourceHandler_ElasticSearch::executeSearch(). It works, and enables providing dynamic content type weighting. But what an ugly hack.

Overwriting the entire function? lol