The ? search operator has been broken for some time and
currently only raises the question why it's still there.
## Context ##
The query "Paris !images" searches for "Paris" in the "images" category.
Once upon a time Searx supported "Paris ?images" to search for "Paris"
in the currently enabled categories and the "images" category.
The feature makes sense ... the ? syntax does not.
We will hopefully introduce a +!images syntax in the future.
Fixes#702.
from_bang is True when the user query contains a bang.
In this case the category is also set to 'none'.
from_bang only usage was in searx.webadapter.parse_specific :
if from_bang is True, then the EngineRef category is ignored and force to 'none'.
This commit also removes the searx.webadapter.parse_sepecific function.
was previously a Dict with two or three keys: name, category, from_bang
make clear that this is a engine reference (see tests/unit/test_search.py for example)
all variables using this class are renamed accordingly.
* Made first attempt at the bangs redirects plugin.
* It redirects. But in a messy way via javascript.
* First version with custom plugin
* Added a help page and a operator to see all the bangs available.
* Changed to .format because of support
* Changed to .format because of support
* Removed : in params
* Fixed path to json file and changed bang operator
* Changed bang operator back to &
* Made first attempt at the bangs redirects plugin.
* It redirects. But in a messy way via javascript.
* First version with custom plugin
* Added a help page and a operator to see all the bangs available.
* Changed to .format because of support
* Changed to .format because of support
* Removed : in params
* Fixed path to json file and changed bang operator
* Changed bang operator back to &
* Refactored getting search query. Also changed bang operator to ! and is now working.
* Removed prints
* Removed temporary bangs_redirect.js file. Updated plugin documentation
* Added unit test for the bangs plugin
* Fixed a unit test and added 2 more for bangs plugin
* Changed back to default settings.yml
* Added myself to AUTHORS.rst
* Refacored working of custom plugin.
* Refactored _get_bangs_data from list to dict to improve search speed.
* Decoupled bangs plugin from webserver with redirect_url
* Refactored bangs unit tests
* Fixed unit test bangs. Removed dubbel parsing in bangs.py
* Removed a dumb print statement
* Refactored bangs plugin to core engine.
* Removed bangs plugin.
* Refactored external bangs unit tests from plugin to core.
* Removed custom_results/bangs documentation from plugins.rst
* Added newline in settings.yml so the PR stays clean.
* Changed searx/plugins/__init__.py back to the old file
* Removed newline search.py
* Refactored get_external_bang_operator from utils to external_bang.py
* Removed unnecessary import form test_plugins.py
* Removed _parseExternalBang and _isExternalBang from query.py
* Removed get_external_bang_operator since it was not necessary
* Simplified external_bang.py
* Simplified external_bang.py
* Moved external_bangs unit tests to test_webapp.py. Fixed return in search with external_bang
* Refactored query parsing to unicode to support python2
* Refactored query parsing to unicode to support python2
* Refactored bangs plugin to core engine.
* Refactored search parameter to search_query in external_bang.py
The new url parameter "timeout_limit" set timeout limit defined in second.
Example "timeout_limit=1.5" means the timeout limit is 1.5 seconds.
In addition, the query can start with <[number] to set the timeout limit.
For number between 0 and 99, the unit is the second :
Example: "<30 searx" means the timeout limit is 3 seconds
For number above 100, the unit is the millisecond:
Example: "<850 searx" means the timeout is 850 milliseconds.
In addition, there is a new optional setting: outgoing.max_request_timeout.
If not set, the user timeout can't go above searx configuration (as before: the max timeout of selected engine for a query).
If the value is set, the user can set a timeout between 0 and max_request_timeout using
<[number] or timeout_limit query parameter.
Related to #1077
Updated version of PR #1413 from @isj-privacore
Add match_language function in utils to match any user given
language code with a list of engine's supported languages.
Also add language_aliases dict on each engine to translate
standard language codes into the custom codes used by the engine.
languages.py can change, so users may query on a language that is not
on the list anymore, even if it is still recognized by a few engines.
also made no and nb the same because they seem to return the same,
though most engines will only support one or the other.
Purposes :
- isolate the plugins calls
- distinction between parsing the web request and running the search (Search class). To be able to test code easily, to run searx code outside a web server, to filter the search query parameters with plugins more easily, etc...
Details :
- request.request_data contains request.form or request.args (initialize inside pre_request() function)
- Query class is renamed RawTextQuery
- SearchQuery class defines all search parameters
- get_search_query_from_webapp create a SearchQuery instance (basically the previous Search.__init__ code)
- Search class and SearchWithPlugins class takes a SearchQuery instance as class constructor parameter
- SearchWithPlugins class inherites from Search class, and run plugins
- A dedicated function search_with_plugins executes plugins to have a well define locals() (which is used by the plugins code).
- All plugins code is executed inside the try...except block (webapp.py, index function)
- advanced_search HTTP parameter value stays in webapp.py (it is only part of UI)
- multiple calls to result_container.get_ordered_results() doesn't compute the order multiple time (note : this method was call only once before)
- paging value is stored in the result_container class (compute in the extend method)
- test about engine.suspend_end_time is done during search method call (instead of __init__)
- check that the format parameter value is one of these : html, rss, json, rss (before the html value was assumed but some text formatting wasn't not done)
Allow to perform a search while adding an engine (or a category) without adding it "officially" to the request.
'?' is used to add an engine without modifying anything else to the request. For example, you can perform a search in the 'general' category, and if you add '?tw' the result from Twitter will be added to the originals results.
