Another approach to Full Text Search on App Engine
Great post on Full Text Search on AppEngine here : Google App Engine Blog: Making your app searchable using self merge-joins
Another easier approach I have used is to use the Full Text Search Capability of Amazon Simple DB.
Here are the steps:
2.Utilize Full Text search capability from Amazon Simple DB.
Here is the approach
Define and Object like SearchType along the following lines
public class SearchType implements Serializable{
private String id;
private String searchString;
private String referenceObjectKey ; // The reference ID in AppEngine for this Entity
private String clazzImpacted; // the Entity Class in AppEngine
}
For every string you want to make searchable push a JSON HTTP post to your Heroku or Stax server while doing the Data Load on AppEngine. Make sure you have a reference Entity ID from the AppEngine world along with the searchString.
I need FullText search mainly for auto-suggest type functionality. I let Ajax on browser query my AWS hosted Server for the searchStrings. Once I have a selection from the browser along with the associated AppEngine ID I can then perform the next steps in Appengine.
I use Amazing APIS for SDB calls
I use Amazing APIS for SDB calls
