MC+A Google Search Appliance/Google C# APIs

New Post: C# API - Add to Google Search Appliance index

danwellbrock — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:41:45 GMT

wouldn' it be awesome to add to the Google Search Appliance index through an API. Waiting an unknown amount of hours before GSA indexes updated content is a serious flaw. To slow!

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas/thoughts on getting googles indexer to speed up ? instantly (or near) is preferable.

Does the Java version hvae a way to insert new items to the index?

Created Issue: Wrting c# code to use partialfields??

freddiemaize — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:57:48 GMT

Hi all,

partialfields=department:IT

Supposing my partialfields is like above, i use the below code (c#),
Query oGSAQuery = new Query();
Hashtable ht = new Hashtable;
ht.add("department","IT");
oGSAQuery.setPartialMetaFields(ht);

partialfields=department:IT|department:Finance

However if my partialfields is like above i cannot use the below code,
Query oGSAQuery = new Query();
Hashtable ht = new Hashtable;
ht.add("department","IT");
ht.add("department","Finance"); //error since hashtable's key cannot be duplicate
oGSAQuery.setPartialMetaFields(ht);

So, my question is, "is there a way to write code for this* kind of query"
this* - partialfields=department:IT|department:Finance

Freddie

New Post: Wrting c# code to use partialfields??

freddiemaize — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:46:50 GMT

Hi all,

partialfields=department:IT

Supposing my partialfields is like above, i use the below code (c#),
Query oGSAQuery = new Query();
Hashtable ht = new Hashtable;
ht.add("department","IT");
oGSAQuery.setPartialMetaFields(ht);

partialfields=department:IT|department:Finance

However if my partialfields is like above i cannot use the below code,
Query oGSAQuery = new Query();
Hashtable ht = new Hashtable;
ht.add("department","IT");
ht.add("department","Finance"); //error since hashtable's key cannot be duplicate
oGSAQuery.setPartialMetaFields(ht);

So, my question is, "is there a way to write code for this* kind of query"
this* - partialfields=department:IT|department:Finance

Freddie

Created Issue: And Terms Problem

sriv151 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:29:06 GMT

Hi,
I have created a DB feed with First Name and Last Name. I had 2 records with the First Name 'Sime'. But One is having Sime-Taylor another one is Sime. But the Last Name is same for both.

I planed to use 'setAndQueryTerms' with First Name and Last Name.

In this above situation i'm getting 2 records. But I want only one record when I given 'sime' for the First Name and the Last Name.

How Can i achieve this functionality?

Thanks,
Venu

Created Issue: OneBoxes are not returned correctly

mbcizmar — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:36:10 GMT

The OneBox Property is null when OneBoxes exist.

Commented Issue: response.isFiltered is always returning false

PrtyLite — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:39:22 GMT

using GSALib v1.3 compiled from C# src and Google Appliance version 5.0.0

I am explicitly setting filtering on the query
".setFilter(GSALib.Constants.Filtering.FULL_FILTER)"

and the results on google's front end display that "results were omitted".

Changing the filter setting via the api and via the query string both affect the available results, but responseObj.isFiltered always returns "false"

Any help/fix/suggestions are appreciated.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: PrtyLite **

Just moving the code in XMLParser.cs from doResponse to startElement works.
The code to move is:
case XMLTags.FI:
response.setFiltered(true);
break;

New Post: Getting Started Guide

owainajones — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:26:46 GMT

the web.config did it! The search appliance works great, now I just have to debug the results :-P

Thanks

New Post: Documentation

adamjenkin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:50:43 GMT

[From this project home page]
"This API was developed by MC+A. It is a port of the project gsa-japi developed by Inxight Software. "

This is an API written in C#, it is a copy of an API written in JAVA.

Glad you have got it working, see you had the same problem as me initially.

New Post: Documentation

ojemuyiwa — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:58:48 GMT

Hmmm. could've sworn it was a c# api, and have it working perfectly now.! Thanks anyways.

New Post: Documentation

adamjenkin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:51:09 GMT

This API is a port of the GSA-JAPI Java API. There are full java docs and tutorials for the GSA-JAPI at http://gsa-japi.sourceforge.net/gsa-japi.html which I found very usefull when using this API.

New Post: Getting Started Guide

ojemuyiwa — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:12:59 GMT

already asked here
Click to view and if it doesn't work, let me know what your set-up / network is like.

New Post: Getting Started Guide

ojemuyiwa — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:08:59 GMT

seems you haven't putthe GSA host settings in your web config! if you have the client has no access. i.e. make sure you can see the mini box from that machine!

New Post: Getting Started Guide

owainajones — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:57:26 GMT

Hi, I am trying to use this project, but I cannot get it to work in my code, or with the sample application provided (TestGSA). I am getting the same null reference error in both applications. If there is a getting started, requirements, configuration, etc. guide could somebody point me to it? The error text below:

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at GSALib.GSA.ClientAccess.GetConfig() in C:\projects\GSALib\src\GSALib\GSA\ClientAccess.cs:line 131
   at GSALib.GSA.ClientAccess.InitializeHost(String protocol, String host, Int32 port, String path) in C:\projects\GSALib\src\GSALib\GSA\ClientAccess.cs:line 106
   at GSALib.GSA.ClientAccess..ctor() in C:\projects\GSALib\src\GSALib\GSA\ClientAccess.cs:line 90
   at TestGSA.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\projects\GSALib\src\TestGSA\Form1.cs:line 41
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

----------------------------------------

Commented Issue: Synonyms

Fraser — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:21:54 GMT

Hi there,
Comments: ** Comment from web user: Fraser **

Hi. Sorry about that.

I think there might be something wrong with the dll. I can't get it to return synonyms or related queries.

I'll talk to my developer tomorrow and get the necessary details.

Best,

Fraser

Created Issue: Synonyms

Fraser — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:19:54 GMT

Hi there,

Patch Uploaded: #1486

Merkwurdigliebe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:02:54 GMT

Merkwurdigliebe has uploaded a patch.

Description:
We started using the API for a project here at The Motley Fool - very useful by the way. But we had to update the code to support our One Box feature. The detailed descriptions are:
- Added FIELD and MODULE_RESULT tags to the XMLTags class
- Added ModuleName property to the OneBoxResponse class
- Fixed a bug in OneBoxResult.getFieldEntries
- Updated XMLParser to support One Box

Commented Feature: Change Configuration Of GSA Host

mbcizmar — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:22:50 GMT

Change the configuration of the GSA host to read from the app.config or web.config. Perhaps create a configuration group for all GSALib configurations.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: mbcizmar **

I was just looking at this today and there should be a much more uniform matter in which configuration is stored and used. I think we should move it all out of the .config file and let the consumer of the API decide where it should be stored.

Commented Issue: Plans for extending API to return cluster search results?

mbcizmar — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:19:03 GMT

In the new version of the GSA you can obtain cluster results from /cluster?{GSA Search Parameters}
By default the results are returned in JSON but this can be changed to xml.
Would be a good feature to enable cluster searching from the API and have an object representation of the cluster results.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: mbcizmar **

Sounds like a good idea. We'll put that into the works.

Commented Issue: response.isFiltered is always returning false

d2r4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:48:58 GMT

the tag <FI /> is being handled as in XMLParser.Parse() on "case XmlNodeType.EndElement" but it is an "empty element" not an "end element" so it needs to be handled on "case XmlNodeType.Element"

Created Issue: response.isFiltered is always returning false

d2r4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:45:10 GMT