Evaluating Meilisearch

[qasimgulzar (Muhammad Qasim Gulzar)]

@braden

Sorry, I’m not clear on what you’re proposing. Is your goal to (A) make the existing LMS courseware search work with meilisearch instead of Elasticsearch, (B) implement a new “auto-suggest” courseware search feature using Meilisearch/edx-search, (C) implement a new abstraction layer for search backends, or (D) all of the above?

In my last post I am proposing (A) to migrate exisitng courseware search to meilisearch with minimal changes.

@braden

Post Sumac (or sooner if possible):

• Rewrite courseware search to use the new abstraction layer instead of edx-search and follow the design discussed in Auto-suggest course content on search (Meilisearch-compatible) so that it uses “personalized access tokens” (requests go directly from browser to search engine, for instant results as you type)
• Rewrite forums/notes/etc. to use the new abstraction layer
• Discovery service - tbd; there will be a bunch of proposals about this in the coming months

This sounds more suitable to me as we have already discussed the other services are optional and we can rewrite the search to use new abstraction after Sumac.

[qasimgulzar (Muhammad Qasim Gulzar)]

I have updated the PR here incorporated most of your comments, now I am implementing unit tests for the the utility functions. As you can see in screenshot this page is using new meilisearch backend.