Hey Doug, where is the ignoredExtensions.txt file supposed to live? having trouble with TTF files right now

Not sure where the relative path would be rooted from, I tend to use absolute paths:
...
com.perforce.search.ignoredExtensions=/home/perforce/jetty/resources/ignoredExtensions.txt

The file format is pretty simple, e.g.:
.ova
.zip
.tar
.gz
.rar
.tgz
.bz2
.mp3

Gave it a go, still ERROR'n up on ttf files but I have them ignored. I'll have a dig around and see if I can find where the ignore file is loaded. My TTF error sounds similar to your old mp3 problem, java process is maxxing out and seems to be stalled.

@phopkins, here is the loading code for ignored extensions. If the file couldn't be found it should be logged in the debug log (assuming log4j is configured for debug)

OK weird, I added the .ttf directly to the defaults in this file and it still threw up errors but not as many. Doing a search I found http://goo.gl/Vqnso8 that tika might throw TTF errors on other types of files, .mdb for example. unfortunately the log output doesn't say what file it excepts on. I might hand it off to one of our java guys, see if he can see whats going on, I'm a bit illiterate .

i kicked off a discussion thread here http://forums.perforce.com/index.php?/topic/3065-p4search-helper-thread/ to keep the swarm noise down.

hey doug, how can i directly download total p4 search directory? please help me asap...

thanks

Hi @Dishant,

Not entirely sure what you mean here. If you mean all of the components required to run, build.sh and install.sh should work (they download relevant jetty and solr versions), but I think there is a newer version of solr that @phopkins updated in his branch that I have not yet integrated.

@Dishant You can sync the code by putting //guest/doug_scheirer/p4-search/search in your client spec and syncing the files. You have read access to everything here in the Workshop. If you want your own copy to work on and modify you can use integrate from the command line or P4V to branch your own copy. Feel free to contact me here or on the forums if you have any questions.

Hi Matt, Thanks. What is the P4PORT I need to use to sync from //guest/doug_scheirer/p4-search/search

Thanks
Dishant

workshop.perforce.com:1666 is the P4PORT. You can use your Swarm login. If you want to make changes you can branch the code into your part of the server, or just sync and use it.

Thanks @matt_attaway: i ran build.sh and then install.sh but is giving this error: "Setting up p4-search...
cp: cannot stat `p4-search*.war': No such file or directory"
Can you help me with this?

Thanks,
Dishant

Hi @doug_scheirer

I have succesfully built and installed the p4 search in my system. Although it is giving "500 - Generic server error". when i search.
Please guide me through this....

also please tell me what is "SEARCH_TOKEN="MY-UUID-STYLE-TOKEN"; in your trigger script?

Hi Doug,

I have looked at the start.log file, looks like the code is not working properly. Is it because my perforce server is on windows? when we execute response from solr it gives null pointer exception and indexer files is also giving errors. I am pasting snapshot from start.log:

826856 [Thread-22] ERROR com.perforce.search.manager.DirectoryScannerThread - Server connection exception, recycling //depot/lem/
826882 [Thread-20] ERROR com.perforce.search.manager.impl.SearchIndexManagerImpl - Error running search: undefined field filename
826882 [Thread-20] ERROR com.perforce.search.manager.DirectoryScannerThread - Search server is down, try again later
826883 [Thread-20] ERROR com.perforce.search.manager.DirectoryScannerThread - Server connection exception, recycling //depot/Collages/
836958 [Thread-21] ERROR com.perforce.search.manager.impl.SearchIndexManagerImpl - Error running search: undefined field filename
836959 [Thread-21] ERROR com.perforce.search.manager.DirectoryScannerThread - Search server is down, try again later
836959 [Thread-21] ERROR com.perforce.search.manager.DirectoryScannerThread - Server connection exception, recycling //depot/lem/

@Dishant -
re: undefined field filename, this means that something went wrong installing the schema file into solr. We add a number of custom fields to the default. The version I built was for 4.5.1, so if you're using a different version you probably have to modify the script.
re: SEARCH_TOKEN, this is just a token to be used in the p4d server side trigger and the search config file. When the trigger fires it should POST via curl to the search server, and it sends along the token so that the search server can identify that the POST request is genuine. So long as they are the same on p4d and p4search, the token formatting doesn't really matter.

@doug_scheirer & @matt_attaway: Thanks both of you for guiding me through this. Your input was very helpful. And the search tool is working fine. :)

That is great to hear! If you have any other questions please feel free to join the thread here on our forums. http://forums.perforce.com/index.php?/topic/3065-p4search-helper-thread/

Now that the search is running fine on my local host perforce. But the problem is when i click at the output "filename": it is opening http://swarm.perforce.com/files/depot/path/filename?v=1 and what i need is file content from localhost perforce. Please guide me what i need to modify. Your help is very much appreciated.
Thanks,

The link locations are configurable in p4-search's properties file. p4-search doesn't attempt to do rendering or navigation as we already have a number of fine products that do that very thing. Configuration options exist for Swarm, P4web, and Commons links:

GUI config

com.perforce.search.commonsURL=https://commons.perforce.com/

com.perforce.search.swarmURL=http://swarm.perforce.com/

com.perforce.search.p4webURL=http://p4web.perforce.com/

still not able to configure p4webURL to my local host.
the changes that i made were :
P4webURL in config.properties file
and in ConfigurationImpl.java

Hi, @Doug I was not able to retrieve results that i got the previous day, due to some changes in test p4 server IP address. I think there is something to do with counters or index user that p4search is creating bu itself. Please guide me what is the proper fuctionality. When I recerated the p4 server with different port, it was working fine then. Thank you for your time.. :)

HI, @matt_attaway, please reply if you have anwer for the above queries.

@Dishant I think you need to continue your questions in the forum, http://forums.perforce.com/index.php?/topic/3065-p4search-helper-thread/ swarm is not a good discussion space, it ends up spamming a lot of people.

Hi @phopkins I was registering on the thread you mentioned, but it is giving me some error:

"The following errors were found:
Your answer to the challenge question was not valid. Please try again."

please guide me through this.

Sounds like you skipped the login anti spam check. How about you make a post here, that might be easier for you. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113023703419583382137

I'm not sure it spams any more fewer people, but the forums are a better place to handle questions like this. 😄 @dishant make sure to read the screen carefully when you're creating your account. There are a couple different security questions but they are pretty straightforward. As @phphopkins suggest G+ is great too.

Hi all,

I want certain enhancements in the p4 search, when showing off results from the solr, i also want "modifiedby" field in the table. i have tried changing search.js but not working.. please guide me through this. any help will be appretiated... thanks