[Toaster] search behaviour

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On 09/07/2015 09:46, "Damian, Alexandru" <alexandru.damian at intel.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
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>I've started working on:
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>https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7152

Ah, great: thanks for taking this on, Alex.

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>I wonder if the behaviour described is to happen only in the typeaheads,
>or if it would also apply to the search in tables.
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>Case at hand - in Project compatible layers, when you search "open", do
>you expect to see "openembedded-core" at the top of the list, before the
>layer names starting with "meta" ? Currently, it is at
> the bottom of the search results, because "o" is after "m" in
>lexicographic order.

Refining the search behaviour would make me really happy, but I am not
sure we can simply transpose the logic from the typeaheads to the tables.
The reason is that search matching in the typeaheads should be done only
against the 'name' (layer name, recipe name or machine name) and the layer
name (so that I can search for a layer name and get a list of for example
machines provided by that layer. This seems to be working at the moment by
the way, and I think it's quite nice).

But in the tables we match against other fields too, most significantly
the description, which is useful because it allows users to type "natural
language" 	queries like "small image" and get results. If a search query
matches against something in a description, I am not sure what the correct
sorting would be. There is a also a potential conflict in the tables
between the sorting applied and any custom sorting we use for search
results.

So the answer is that it's worth putting some time into thinking this
through. I am going to ask Tiago if he could look at it and come up with a
design proposal by Monday EOD. Would that work? Or is it too late? It's a
holiday in Brazil today, so I know he can only start looking at this
tomorrow. 

Cheers

Belén 

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>Cheers,
>Alex
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>Alex Damian
>Yocto Project
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>SSG / OTC 
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