Search Management UI (SMUI)¶
SMUI v1.5.0 screenshot¶
SMUI is a tool for managing Solr-based onsite search. It provides a web user interface for maintaining rules for query rewriting based on the Querqy Solr plugin for query rewriting. Please see querqy for the installation of Querqy.
RELEASE NOTES¶
Major changes in v3.11¶
Git deployment: Deploy rules.txt files to a git repository using the user you start SMUI with.
NOTE: With v3.11 first JSON payloads exceeding 5K of data were observed in productive environments. Therefore, the data type changed to
varchar(10000)(@see /smui/conf/evolutions/default/6.sql). To avoid database migration trouble, it’s strongly recommended to install SMUI version >= 3.11.5. Prior DockerHub versions with Activity Log had been removed!!
Major changes in v3.10¶
Version check: SMUI checks version diff against market standard (on DockerHub) and warns about outdated local setups.
Major changes in v3.9¶
Custom UP/DOWN dropdown mappings for the frontend can be configured. Step sizes for UP/DOWN boost/penalise values are more flexible now.
Major changes in v3.8¶
- Activity Log & Reporting capabilities: SMUI now logs every activity (rule creations, updates & the like) & offers reports, that grant an overview over changes done in a certain period.
Activies for an input are reported in the details sections.
SMUI offers a “Report” view, where (a) all Activities / changes in a specific period can be reviewed (“Activity Report”), and where you (b) find an overview of all rules sorted by last modification (“Rules Report”)
Activity Logging must be activated for this (see “Configure application behaviour / feature toggles“ for details).
Note: Please install version >= 3.8.3 as the prior v3.8 releases (v3.8.1, v3.8.2) do flawful persistence of Activity event entities (those version have been removed in DockerHub as well)!
Major changes in v3.7¶
Bump querqy version to 3.7.0
New flag for list limitation: Limits the visible rule items in the left pane to improve render speed (flag: toggle.ui-list.limit-items-to)
- New spelling items:
Spellings/misspellings can be maintained in SMUI using the querqy replace rewriter (e.g.
ombile => mobile)Replace rules are exported in a seperate rule file that can be configured in the application.conf
Major refactoring of frontend
Major changes in v3.6¶
Search manager now have the possibility to deactivate (instead of deleting) a whole set of search rules, that belong to a specific input.
SMUI provides the possibility to comment on changes to search rules for a specific input.
Major changes in v3.5¶
SMUI provides a docker only runtime environment (including a safe
smui:smuiuser). Installing SMUI from an RPM image is not supported (and therefore not documented) any more.
Major changes in v3 (compared to v2)¶
Auto-DECORATE do not exist any more. Please migrate any usage to Auto-Log-Rule-ID
SMUI for that feature depends now on v3.3 of querqy
Major changes in v2 (compared to v1)¶
Database schema definition (SQL) implemented more lightweight, so that SMUI can be operated with every standard SQL database (entity IDs therefore needed to be adjusted, see “Migrate pre-v2 SMUI databases” for details)
INSTALLATION¶
Step 1: Create and configure database (SQL level)¶
SMUI needs a database backend in order to manage and store search management rules.
Supported (tested) databases:
Generally SMUI database connection implementation is based on JDBC and only standard SQL is used, so technically every database management system supported by JDBC should feasible when using SMUI. However as database management systems potentially come with specific features, SMUI explicity is tested (and/or productively used) only with the following database management systems:
MySQL & MariaDB
PostgreSQL
SQLite
HSQLDB
You can decide, where your database backend application should be run and host its data. In an productive environment, e.g. you could run a docker based database application (e.g. https://hub.docker.com/_/mariadb) within the same (docker) network like SMUI. However, for the sake of simplicity, the following sections assumes you have a local (MariaDB) database application running on the host environment.
Create SMUI database, user and assign according permissions. Example script (SQL, MariaDB / MySQL):
CREATE USER 'smui'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'smui';
CREATE DATABASE smui;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON smui.* TO 'smui'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Migrate pre-v2 SMUI databases¶
As of version 3.3 it has become possible to migrate prior version’s
search management input and rules via the rules.txt file. See
“Import existing rules.txt” for details.
Step 2: Install SMUI application (using docker image or Docker Hub repository)¶
Use SMUI docker image from Docker Hub (recommended)¶
SMUI is also integrated into a Travis CI build pipeline, that provides a Docker Hub SMUI image. You can pull the latest SMUI (master branch) from its public dockerhub repository, e.g. (command line):
docker pull querqy/smui:latest
Manually build the SMUI docker container¶
SMUI provides a Makefile to help you with the manual
docker build process. You can use make to build as a docker
container, e.g. (command line):
make docker-build-only
NOTE: If you are not having make available, you can manually
reproduce the according docker build command.
Step 3: Minimum SMUI configuration and start of the application¶
SMUI is configured passing environment variables to the docker container
SMUI runs on. The following section describes all parameters, that you
can configure SMUI with. Mappings of config keys to environment
variables can be found in application.conf
(e.g. SMUI_DB_JDBC_DRIVER environment variable sets
db.default.driver).
NOTE: Environment variables are the preferred way to configure your
production environment. In contrast, while developing (outside a docker
environment) it is possible to use a local smui-dev.conf file (see
“DEVELOPMENT SETUP”).
The following sections describe application configs in more detail.
Configure basic settings¶
The following settings can (and should) be overwritten on
application.conf in your own smui-prod.conf level:
Config key |
Description |
Default |
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JDBC database driver |
MySQL database on localhost for |
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Database host and optional connection parameters (JDBC connection string). |
MySQL database on localhost for |
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Database credentials. |
MySQL database on localhost for smui:smui. |
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Path to temp file (when |
local /tmp file in docker container (recommended: leave default). WARNING: Deprecated as of v3.4, will be replaced soon. |
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LIVE |
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Needed for git deployment (see “Deploy rules.txt to a git target“). |
Empty. |
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Bare filename of the common |
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Solr host |
Virtual local Solr instance. WARNING: Deprecated as of v3.4, will be replaced soon. |
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Encryption key for server/client communication (Play 2.6 standard) |
unsecure default. |
Start SMUI (docker) application¶
Using the config key’s environment variable equivalents (as defined in
the application.conf), the following start
command can be used to bootstrap the SMUI (docker) application.
NOTE: For security reasons, within the docker container, SMUI is run as
smui user (group: smui) with a uid of 1024. For
rules.txt deployment onto the host file system, you need to make sure,
that an according user (uid) exists on the host (see “Details on
rules.txt deployment” for more info).
A minimum start command can look like this (working with the default setup as described above) running SMUI on its default port 9000, e.g. (command line):
docker run \
-p 9000:9000 \
-v /tmp/smui_deployment_path:/usr/bin/solr/defaultCore/conf \
querqy/smui
This will deploy a rules.txt to the /tmp/smui_deployment_path of
the host (if user and permission requirements are set accordingly).
NOTE: In a productive scenario, you can as well use a
docker-compose.yml to define the SMUI (docker) runtime environment.
Step 4: Full feature configuration for SMUI¶
The following sections describe:
Configuration of the application behaviour / feature toggles (e.g. rule tagging)
Details and options for the deployment (of Querqy’s
rules.txtfile)Configuration of authentication
Configure application behaviour / feature toggles¶
Optional. The following settings in the application.conf define its
(frontend) behaviour:
Config key |
Description |
Default |
|---|---|---|
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Show UP(+++) fields instead of separated rule and intensity fields. |
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Offer a separated “Solr Field” input to the user (UP/DOWN, FILTER). |
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With every exported search input, add an additional |
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Separate decompound synonyms ( |
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Path to productive querqy |
Example content, that needs to be adjusted, if split for decompound rules.txt has been activated. |
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Make separated deployments PRELIVE vs. LIVE possible (and display a button for that on the frontend). |
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PRELIVE |
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Host and port (e.g. |
Empty. In case core reload on PRELIVE deployments should be triggered, this needs to be set. |
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Separate decompound synonyms for PRELIVE (see above). |
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If set to |
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Path to an optional custom script (see above). |
Example content, that needs to be adjusted, if a custom deployment script is activated. |
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Should tagging feature be activated. |
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Path to optional file, that provides pre-defined rule tags (see “Configure predefined rule tags”). |
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Target URL of simple logout button (see “Configure Authentication”). |
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Activate spelling items: Add spelling items to maintain common misspellings using the querqy replace rewriter. The spelling items are exported in a seperate replace_rules.txt that is uploaded to Solr. |
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Activate list limitation: Limits the list of visible items to the configured number and shows toggle button (“show more/less”). Set value to -1 to deactivate list limitation. |
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Path to temp file (when |
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PRELIVE |
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Default username for being displayed on the frontend, if no username is available (e.g. for event history). |
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Persist an event history for all updates to the search management configuration, and provide an activity log for the search manager. WARNING: If this setting is changed over time (especially from |
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Provide custom mapping / step sizes for UP/DOWN boosting/penalising values as JSON (used, if |
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NOTE: The above described feature toggles are passed to SMUI’s docker
container using according environment variables. The mappings can be
found in the application.conf.
Configure predefined rule tags (optional)¶
Optional. You can define pre-defined rule tags, that can be used by the search manager to organise or even adjust the rules exported to the rules.txt. See TestPredefinedTags.json for structure.
Configure custom UP/DOWN dropdown mappings (optional)¶
SMUI makes life easier when dealing with UP/DOWN boosting/penalising intensities. It translates raw values passed to querqy to a more comprehensible format to the search manager working with +++ and --- on the frontend. By default a typical intensity range from 500 to 5 is covered, which should work with most search engine (e.g. Solr) schema configurations and the according querqy setup.
However, if SMUI’s default does not match the specific needs, the default can be adjusted. This can be achieved by passing a JSON object, describing the desired custom UP/DOWN dropdown mappings to SMUI while using the toggle.ui-concept.custom.up-down-dropdown-mappings configuration. The JSON is passed as a raw string, that is then validated by SMUI.
Note: If for any reason your custom mappings do not apply, check SMUI’s (error) logs, as it is likely, that the validation yielded an error.
toggle.ui-concept.custom.up-down-dropdown-mappings="[{\"displayName\":\"UP(+++++)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\":750},{\"displayName\":\"UP(++++)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\":100},{\"displayName\":\"UP(+++)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\":50},{\"displayName\":\"UP(++)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\":10},{\"displayName\":\"UP(+)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\": 5},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(-)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 5},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(--)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 10},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(---)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 50},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(----)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 100},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(-----)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 750}]"
Here is Docker example (command line):
docker run \
...
-e SMUI_CUSTOM_UPDOWN_MAPPINGS="[{\"displayName\":\"UP(+++++)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\":750},{\"displayName\":\"UP(++++)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\":100},{\"displayName\":\"UP(+++)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\":50},{\"displayName\":\"UP(++)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\":10},{\"displayName\":\"UP(+)\",\"upDownType\":0,\"boostMalusValue\": 5},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(-)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 5},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(--)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 10},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(---)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 50},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(----)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 100},{\"displayName\":\"DOWN(-----)\",\"upDownType\":1,\"boostMalusValue\": 750}]"
...
Note: Quotations used for JSON attributes/values must be escaped (\") in complete string sequence!
Details and options for the deployment (rules.txt)¶
The default deployment script supports cp or scp file transfer
method to deploy the rules.txt and replace_rules.txt and triggers a Solr core on the
target system, if configured accordingly. Its behaviour is controlled
using the config variables above, e.g.:
docker run \
...
-e SMUI_2SOLR_DST_CP_FILE_TO=remote_user:remote_pass@remote_host:/path/to/live/solr/defaultCore/conf/rules.txt \
-e SMUI_2SOLR_SOLR_HOST=remote_solr_host:8983 \
-e SMUI_DEPLOY_PRELIVE_FN_RULES_TXT=/mnt/prelive_solr_depl/rules.txt \
-e SMUI_DEPLOY_PRELIVE_SOLR_HOST=docker_host:8983 \
...
-v /path/to/prelive/solr/defaultCore/conf:/mnt/prelive_solr_depl
...
querqy/smui
(config parameters are expressed as according environment variable
names, like applicable in a docker setup, see application.conf)
In this particular example, the LIVE instance of Solr runs on
remote_solr_host and can be reached by remote_user on
remote_host for rules.txt deployment (NOTE: remote_host as
well as remote_solr_host might even be the same instance, but just
have differing network names). scp will be chosen by the default
deployment script. In contrast to that, the PRELIVE instance of Solr
resides on the docker_host. File deployment is ensured using an
according docker volume mount. cp will be chosen.
NOTE: The example above also accounts for
SMUI_TOGGLE_DEPL_DECOMPOUND_DST and
SMUI_DEPLOY_PRELIVE_FN_DECOMPOUND_TXT, when
SMUI_TOGGLE_DEPL_SPLIT_DECOMPOUND is set to true.
NOTE: The example above also accounts for
SMUI_2SOLR_REPLACE_RULES_DST_CP_FILE_TO and
SMUI_DEPLOY_PRELIVE_FN_REPLACE_TXT, when
SMUI_TOGGLE_SPELLING is set to true.
Deploy rules.txt to a git target¶
The SMUI docker container comes with an alternative
deployment script for deployment to git, which is located under
conf/smui2git.sh.
NOTE: Your rules.txt repository needs to be initialised with (at least) the empty files, you would like to get managed by SMUI on the master branch (or branch you would like SMUI to deploy to).
The conf/smui2git.sh main deployment script uses the
alternative git deployment script, in case a GIT deployment target
is supplied (for the specific target system). You can use the following
setting to force git deployment for the LIVE stage, e.g. (command
line):
In the docker container the git deployment will be done in the
/tmp/smui-git-repo path. You need to make sure, that identification is provided to the SMUI docker
environment:
The following example illustrates how to configure SMUI and pass host’s identity:
docker run \
...
-v ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/smui/.ssh/id_rsa \
-v ~/.gitconfig:/home/smui/.gitconfig \
...
-e SMUI_2SOLR_DST_CP_FILE_TO="GIT" \
-e SMUI_DEPLOYMENT_GIT_REPO_URL="ssh://git@repo-host.tld/smui_rulestxt_repo.git" \
...
querqy/smui
NOTE:
When working with remote git locations, it might be necessary to also add your git repo host to SMUI’s
/home/smui/.ssh/known_hosts.As of v3.11.5 only deployment of the common rules.txt file is supported (neither decompound- nor replace-rules.txt files). Support for that might be added in future releases.
Configuration of authentication¶
SMUI is shipped with HTTP Basic and JWT Authentication support.
Basic Authentication¶
This is telling every controller method (Home and ApiController) to use
the according authentication method as well as it tells SMUI’s
BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction username and password it should use.
Basic Auth can be turned on in the extension by configuring an
smui.authAction in the config file, e.g.:
# For Basic Auth authentication, use SMUI's BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction (or leave it blanked / commented out for no authentication), e.g.:
smui.authAction = controllers.auth.BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction
smui.BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction.user = smui_user
smui.BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction.pass = smui_pass
JWT Authentication¶
smui.authAction="controllers.auth.JWTJsonAuthenticatedAction"
Config key |
Description |
Default |
|---|---|---|
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The URL to the login page (e.g. https://loginexample.com/login.html?callback=https://redirecturl.com) |
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Name of cookie that contains the Json Web Token (JWT) |
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The public key to verify the token signature. |
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The algorithms that should be used for decoding (options: ‘rsa’, ‘hmac’, ‘asymmetric’, ‘ecdsa’) |
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Activation of authorization check |
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The JSON path to the roles saved in the JWT |
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Roles (comma separated) of roles, that are authorized to access SMUI |
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Example of decoded Json Web Token:
{
"user": "Test Admin",
"roles": [
"admin"
]
}
Logout¶
In this setup SMUI can provide a simple logout button, that simply sends the user to a configured target URL:
smui.auth.ui-concept.simple-logout-button-target-url="https://www.example.com/logoutService/"
Custom Authentication¶
You can also implement a custom authentication action and tell SMUI to decorate its controllers with that, e.g.:
smui.authAction = myOwnPackage.myOwnAuthenticatedAction
See “Developing Custom Authentication” for details.
Step 5: Create SMUI admin data initially (via REST interface)¶
Once the database scheme has been established, the initial data can be inserted. SMUI supports a REST interface to PUT admin entities (like the following) into the database.
Solr Collections to maintain Search Management rules for¶
There must exist a minimum of 1 Solr Collection (or
querqy/rules.txt deployment target), that Search Management rules
are maintained for. This must be created before the application can be
used. Example curl (relative to localhost:9000):
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"core_name1", "description":"Solr Search Index/Core #1"}' http://localhost:9000/api/v1/solr-index
[...]
NOTE: solr-index/name (in this case core_name1) will be used as
the name of the Solr core, when performing a Core Reload (see
smui2solr.sh).
Initial Solr Fields¶
Optional. Example curl (relative to localhost:9000):
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"solr-field-1"}' http://localhost:9000/api/v1/{SOLR_INDEX_ID}/suggested-solr-field
[...]
Where solr-field-1 refers to the field in your configured Solr
schema you would like to make addressable to the Search Manager.
{SOLR_INDEX_ID} refers to the index ID created by the solr-index
call above.
Refresh Browser window and you should be ready to go.
USING SMUI¶
Search rules¶
SMUI supports the following search rules, that can be deployed to a Querqy supporting search engine (like Solr):
SYNONYM(directed & undirected)UP/DOWNFILTERDELETE
Please see Querqy for a description of those rules.
Furthermore, SMUI comes with built in DECORATE rules for certain use
cases:
REDIRECT(as Querqy/DECORATE) to a specific target URL
SMUI might as well leverages querqy’s @_log property to communicate
SMUI’s rule ID back to the search-engine (Solr) querying instance.
Spelling rules¶
Spelling rules are using the querqy REPLACE rewriter to overwrite the input term. Following rules can be used to replace the input term:
Spelling |
Alternative |
Description |
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|---|---|---|---|
simple rule |
mobile |
ombile |
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prefix rule |
cheap |
cheap* |
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suffix rule |
phone |
*phones |
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wildcards |
computer $1 |
computer* |
computer* => computer $1 Can be used to generalize and split spellings (e.g. computertable => computer table). Just one suffix rule is allowed per spelling. |
Import existing rules (rules.txt)¶
As of version 3.3 SMUI supports importing an existing rules.txt file and adding its content to the SMUI database. The following steps outline the procedure
uses an existing Solr index or create a new one
uses the new
import-from-rules-txtendpoint to upload / import a rules.txt file
e.g.:
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name": "mySolrCore", "description": "My Solr Core"}' http://localhost:9000/api/v1/solr-index
#> {"result":"OK","message":"Adding Search Input 'mySolrCore' successful.","returnId":"a4aaf472-c0c0-49ac-8e34-c70fef9aa8a9"}
#> a4aaf472-c0c0-49ac-8e34-c70fef9aa8a9 is the Id of new Solr index
curl -F 'rules_txt=@/path/to/local/rules.txt' http://localhost:9000/api/v1/a4aaf472-c0c0-49ac-8e34-c70fef9aa8a9/import-from-rules-txt
NOTE: If you have configured SMUI with authentication, you need to pass
authentication information (e.g. BasicAuth header) along the curl
request.
WARNING: As of version 3.3 the rules.txt import endpoint only supports
SYNONYM, UP / DOWN, FILTER and DELETE rules.
Redirects, other DECORATEs, as well as Input Tags will be omitted,
and not be migrated using the import endpoint.
Use SMUI’s REST interface to create an search input with according rules¶
Like SMUI’s (angular) frontend, you are capable of leveraging SMUI’s
REST interface to create and update search management rules
programmatically. Rules have corresponding search inputs, that they are
working on. If you want to create rules programmatically it is therefore
important to keep track of the input the rules should refer to. As
processing relies on parsing JSON input and output, the python script
under docs/example_rest_crud.py will
create one search input, that will be updated with one SYNONYM and
one FILTER rule as an example.
Monitor SMUI’s log file¶
SMUI’s log file is located under the following path (in the SMUI docker container):
/smui/logs/application.log
Server logs can be watched using docker exec, e.g. (command line):
docker exec -it <CONTAINER_PS_ID> tail -f /smui/logs/application.log
DEVELOPMENT SETUP¶
For developing new features and test the application with different type
of configuration, it is recommended to create a local development
configuration of the application (instead of the productive one
described above). There is the smui-dev.conf being excluded from
version control through the .gitignore, so that you can safely
create a local development configuration in the project’s root (naming
it smui-dev.conf). Here is an example being used on a local
development machine adjusting some features:
include "application.conf"
db.default.url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/smui?autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false"
db.default.username="local_dev_db_user"
db.default.password="local_dev_db_pass"
smui2solr.SRC_TMP_FILE="/PATH/TO/LOCAL_DEV/TMP/FILE.tmp"
smui2solr.DST_CP_FILE_TO="PATH/TO/LOCAL_DEV/SOLR/CORE/CONF/rules.txt"
smui2solr.SOLR_HOST="localhost:8983"
toggle.ui-concept.updown-rules.combined=true
toggle.ui-concept.all-rules.with-solr-fields=true
toggle.rule-deployment.log-rule-id=true
toggle.rule-deployment.split-decompound-rules-txt=true
toggle.rule-deployment.split-decompound-rules-txt-DST_CP_FILE_TO="/PATH/TO/LOCAL_DEV/SOLR/CORE/CONF/decompound-rules.txt"
toggle.rule-deployment.pre-live.present=true
toggle.rule-deployment.custom-script=true
toggle.rule-deployment.custom-script-SMUI2SOLR-SH_PATH="/PATH/TO/LOCAL_DEV/smui2solr-dev.sh"
toggle.rule-tagging=true
toggle.predefined-tags-file="/PATH/TO/LOCAL_DEV/predefined-tags.json"
...
play.http.secret.key="<generated local play secret>"
# smui.authAction = controllers.auth.BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction
# smui.BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction.user = smui_dev_user
# smui.BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction.pass = smui_dev_pass
As you can see, for development purposes you are recommended to have a local Solr installation running as well.
For running The SMUI application locally on your development machine
pass the above config file when starting the application in sbt,
e.g.:
run -Dconfig.file=./smui-dev.conf 9000
Furthermore, above’s configuration points to a deviant development
version of the smui2solr.sh-script. The file smui2solr-dev.sh is
as well excluded from the version control. The following example
provides a simple custom deployment script approach, that basically just
delegates the script call to the main smui2solr.sh one:
echo "In smui2solr-dev.sh - DEV wrapper for smui2solr.sh, proving custom scripts work"
BASEDIR=$(dirname "$0")
$BASEDIR/conf/smui2solr.sh "$@"
exit $?
It can be used as a basis for extension.
NOTE: Remember to give it a +x permission for being executable to
the application.
Developing Custom Authentication¶
Authentication Backend¶
If you want to extend SMUI’s authentication behaviour, you can do so by
supplying your own authentication implementation into the classpath of
SMUI’s play application instance and referencing it in the
application.conf. Your custom authentication action offers a maximum
of flexibility as it is based upon play’s ActionBuilderImpl. In
addition your custom action gets the current environment’s
appConfig, so it can use configurations defined there as well.
Comply with the following protocol:
import play.api.Configuration
import play.api.mvc._
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext
class myOwnAuthenticatedAction(parser: BodyParsers.Default,
appConfig: Configuration)(implicit ec: ExecutionContext) extends ActionBuilderImpl(parser) {
override def invokeBlock[A](request: Request[A], block: (Request[A]) => Future[Result]) = {
...
}
As an example implementation, you can check BasicAuthAuthenticatedAction.scala as well.
Frontend Behaviour for Authentication¶
The Angular frontend comes with a built-in HTTP request authentication
interceptor. Every API request is observed for returned 401 status
codes. In case the backend returns 401, the backend can pass an
behaviour instruction to the frontend by complying with spec defined by
SmuiAuthViolation within
http-auth-interceptor.ts,
e.g.:
{
"action": "redirect",
"params": "https://www.example.com/loginService/?urlCallback={{CURRENT_SMUI_URL}}"
}
NOTE: The authentication interceptor only joins the game, in case the
Angular application is successfully bootstrap’ed. So for SMUI’s /
route, your custom authentication method might choose a different
behaviour (e.g. 302).
Within exemplary redirect action above, you can work with the
{{CURRENT_SMUI_URL}} placeholder, that SMUI will replace with its
current location as an absolute URL before the redirect gets executed.
Through this, it becomes possible for the remote login service to
redirect back to SMUI once the login has succeeded.
Developing git deployment method¶
SMUI offers the possibility to deploy rules.txt (files) to a git repository. For doing so in a local development setup, it might therefore be necessary to operate a local git instance. The following section describes, how that can be achieved.
Bootstrap a local git server (docker)¶
For the local git server, the dockerhub image |jkarlos/git-server-docker|:target: https://hub.docker.com/r/jkarlos/git-server-docker/| will be used, see (command line):
# create a private/public (SSH) key
# e.g. ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "yourself@YourComputer.local"
# create repo folder and provide (public) key
mkdir <SMUI_GIT_ROOT>/keys
mkdir <SMUI_GIT_ROOT>/repos
# TODO better symlink?
cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub <SMUI_GIT_ROOT>/keys/
# start the container (and provide public key)
docker run -d -p 22:22 -v <SMUI_GIT_ROOT>/keys:/git-server/keys -v <SMUI_GIT_ROOT>/repos:/git-server/repos jkarlos/git-server-docker
# NOTE: Your local development user must have permission to access information of your local git user (in case they differ)
You can run the following script (preferred as git test user itself) to init the repo (command line):
# from within the git server docker container
# NOTE: open shell in container:
docker exec -it <CONTAINER_ID> /bin/sh
# (docker ps will give you the CONTAINER_ID)
cd <SMUI_GIT_ROOT>/repos
mkdir smui_rulestxt_repo
cd smui_rulestxt_repo
git init --shared=true
git add .
git commit -m "my first commit"
cd ..
git clone --bare smui_rulestxt_repo smui_rulestxt_repo.git
# initial manual checkout (on the host machine)
# make sure, there exists an (at least empty) common rules.txt file on the master branch (clone it somewhere and create a master branch)
touch rules.txt
git add rules.txt
git commit -m "empty rules.txt commit"
git push
To configure and start SMUI using a git deployment see “Deploy rules.txt to a git target“.
Have fun coding SMUI!!
LICENSE¶
Search Management UI (SMUI) is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.
Contributors¶
Paul M. Bartusch, Committer/Maintainer