Typification of SearXNG
=======================
This patch introduces the typing of the results. The why and how is described
in the documentation, please generate the documentation ..
$ make docs.clean docs.live
and read the following articles in the "Developer documentation":
- result types --> http://0.0.0.0:8000/dev/result_types/index.html
The result types are available from the `searx.result_types` module. The
following have been implemented so far:
- base result type: `searx.result_type.Result`
--> http://0.0.0.0:8000/dev/result_types/base_result.html
- answer results
--> http://0.0.0.0:8000/dev/result_types/answer.html
including the type for translations (inspired by #3925). For all other
types (which still need to be set up in subsequent PRs), template documentation
has been created for the transition period.
Doc of the fields used in Templates
===================================
The template documentation is the basis for the typing and is the first complete
documentation of the results (needed for engine development). It is the
"working paper" (the plan) with which further typifications can be implemented
in subsequent PRs.
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/357
Answer Templates
================
With the new (sub) types for `Answer`, the templates for the answers have also
been revised, `Translation` are now displayed with collapsible entries (inspired
by #3925).
!en-de dog
Plugins & Answerer
==================
The implementation for `Plugin` and `Answer` has been revised, see
documentation:
- Plugin: http://0.0.0.0:8000/dev/plugins/index.html
- Answerer: http://0.0.0.0:8000/dev/answerers/index.html
With `AnswerStorage` and `AnswerStorage` to manage those items (in follow up
PRs, `ArticleStorage`, `InfoStorage` and .. will be implemented)
Autocomplete
============
The autocompletion had a bug where the results from `Answer` had not been shown
in the past. To test activate autocompletion and try search terms for which we
have answerers
- statistics: type `min 1 2 3` .. in the completion list you should find an
entry like `[de] min(1, 2, 3) = 1`
- random: type `random uuid` .. in the completion list, the first item is a
random UUID
Extended Types
==============
SearXNG extends e.g. the request and response types of flask and httpx, a module
has been set up for type extensions:
- Extended Types
--> http://0.0.0.0:8000/dev/extended_types.html
Unit-Tests
==========
The unit tests have been completely revised. In the previous implementation,
the runtime (the global variables such as `searx.settings`) was not initialized
before each test, so the runtime environment with which a test ran was always
determined by the tests that ran before it. This was also the reason why we
sometimes had to observe non-deterministic errors in the tests in the past:
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2988 is one example for the Runtime
issues, with non-deterministic behavior ..
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/3650
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/3654
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/3642#issuecomment-2226884469
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/3746#issuecomment-2300965005
Why msgspec.Struct
==================
We have already discussed typing based on e.g. `TypeDict` or `dataclass` in the past:
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1562/files
- https://gist.github.com/dalf/972eb05e7a9bee161487132a7de244d2
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1412/files
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1356
In my opinion, TypeDict is unsuitable because the objects are still dictionaries
and not instances of classes / the `dataclass` are classes but ...
The `msgspec.Struct` combine the advantages of typing, runtime behaviour and
also offer the option of (fast) serializing (incl. type check) the objects.
Currently not possible but conceivable with `msgspec`: Outsourcing the engines
into separate processes, what possibilities this opens up in the future is left
to the imagination!
Internally, we have already defined that it is desirable to decouple the
development of the engines from the development of the SearXNG core / The
serialization of the `Result` objects is a prerequisite for this.
HINT: The threads listed above were the template for this PR, even though the
implementation here is based on msgspec. They should also be an inspiration for
the following PRs of typification, as the models and implementations can provide
a good direction.
Why just one commit?
====================
I tried to create several (thematically separated) commits, but gave up at some
point ... there are too many things to tackle at once / The comprehensibility of
the commits would not be improved by a thematic separation. On the contrary, we
would have to make multiple changes at the same places and the goal of a change
would be vaguely recognizable in the fog of the commits.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
This patch adds an additional *isinstance* check within the ast parser to check
for float along with int, fixing the underlying issue.
Co-Authored: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
In the past, some files were tested with the standard profile, others with a
profile in which most of the messages were switched off ... some files were not
checked at all.
- ``PYLINT_SEARXNG_DISABLE_OPTION`` has been abolished
- the distinction ``# lint: pylint`` is no longer necessary
- the pylint tasks have been reduced from three to two
1. ./searx/engines -> lint engines with additional builtins
2. ./searx ./searxng_extra ./tests -> lint all other python files
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
incident:
flask_babel.gettext() does not work in the engine modules.
cause:
the request() and response() functions of the engine modules run in the
processor, whose search() method runs in a thread and in the threads the
context of the Flask app does not exist. The context of the Flask app is
needed by the gettext() function for the L10n.
Solution:
copy context of the Flask app into the threads. [1]
special case:
We cannot equip the search() method of the processors with the decorator [1],
because the decorator requires a context (Flask app) that does not yet exist
at the time of the initialization of the processors (the initialization of the
processors is part of the initialization of the Flask app).
[1] https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.3.x/api/#flask.copy_current_request_context
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Over the years the webapp module became more and more a mess. To improve the
modulaization a little this patch moves some implementations from the webapp
module to webutils module.
HINT: this patch brings non functional change
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
HINT: this patch has no functional change / it is the preparation for following
changes and bugfixes
Over the years, the preferences template became an unmanageable beast. To make
the source code more readable the monolith is splitted into elements. The
splitting into elements also has the advantage that a new template can make use
of them.
The reversed checkbox is a quirk that is only used in the prefereces and must be
eliminated in the long term. For this the macro 'checkbox_onoff_reversed' was
added to the preferences.html template. The 'checkbox' macro is also a quirk of
the preferences.html we don't want to use in other templates (it is an
input-checkbox in a HTML form that was misused for status display).
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Some HTTP-Clients do have issues with the ``opensearch.xml`` from SearXNG
(related [1][2]) while other OpenSearch descriptions[3] (e.g. from qwant) work
flawles.
Inspired by the OpenSearch description from qwant and with informations from the
specification[4] the ``opensearch.xml`` has been *improved*.
- convert `<Url>` methods from lower case to upper case (`POST`|`GET`)
- add `<moz:SearchForm>` and `xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"`
- add `<Query role="example" searchTerms="SearXNG" />` [4]
OpenSearch description documents should include at least one Query element of
`role="example"` that is expected to return search results. Search clients may
use this example query to validate that the search engine is working properly.
- modified `<LongName>` to SearXNG
- modified `<Description>` the word 'hackable' scares uninitiated users and was removed
- add the `type="image/png"` to `<Image>`
Test can be done by::
make run
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8888/ and add the search engine to your WEB-Browser /
test with different WEB-Browser from desktop and Smartphones (are there any iOS
user here, please test on Safari and Chrome).
[1] https://app.element.io/#/room/#searxng:matrix.org/$xN_abdKhNqUlgXRBrb_9F3pqOxnSzGQ1TG0s0G9hQVw
[2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/431
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch
[4] https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch/blob/master/opensearch-1-1-draft-6.md#the-query-element
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
This patch implements a bolierplate to share content from info-pages of the
SearXNG instance (URL /info) with the project documentation (path /docs/user).
The info pages are using Markdown (CommonMark), to include them in the project
documentation (reST) the myst-parser [1] is used in the Sphinx-doc build chain.
If base_url is known (defined in settings.yml) links to the instance are also
inserted into the project documentation::
searxng_extra/docs_prebuild
[1] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/markdown.html
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
* drop image_layout.js from simple theme
* move image_layout.js to oscar theme and delete common js dir (since its empty now)
* align top position of image detail modal with bottom position of search header
* use flexbox to display images; row height can be set via @results-image-row-height in defenitions.less
* display span title underneath each image with a max width of 12rem
* increase margin and padding around image article on desktop and tablet
* make article height smaller on phone layout (height of 6rem) to display more content on current view
* remove content from result, if the title and content matches
* use a group that cotains the flex image article, if images are mixed with other categories
* fix pylint issues in webapp.py
* use the default.html result template in unit tests (thanks @return42)
Now that about.html extends page_with_header.html
it already has a link to the start page and removing
the link makes it easier to extract the page title
from the Markdown for the following commit.
it prepares the new architecture change,
everything about multithreading in moved in the searx.search.* packages
previously the call to the "init" function of the engines was done in searx.engines:
* the network was not set (request not sent using the defined proxy)
* it requires to monkey patch the code to avoid HTTP requests during the tests
Some of our interface locales include uppercase country codes,
which are separated by `_` instead of the more common `-`.
Also, a browser's `Accept-Language` header could be in lowercase.
This commit attempts to normalize those cases so a browser's
language+country codes can better match with our locales.
This solution assumes that our UI locales have nothing more than
language and optionally country. If we ever add a script specific
locale like `zh-Hant-TW` this would have to change to accomodate
that, but the idea would be pretty much the same as this fix.
* URL / : the index page displayed the selected or the default category.
* URL / : when the q parameter is set using the URL, the redirect includes the URL query.
* URL /search : an empty query doesn't raise an exception.
This makes it easier to separately handle search and index requests
from a web server or from a reverse proxy.
If a request to index contains a query, a permanent redirect HTTP response
is returned. This should give some level of backwards compatibility
for users that have set a searx instance in their browser's search bar.
* 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
commit 2c6531b2 does not only break the unit test, it is a significant change of
the data model and the searx search-syntax model (UI) without any discussion nor
documentation.
At the end, adding routes to instant answers is a nice feature but commit
2c6531b2 leaf some questions open.
In that sense, this patch is only a hotfix not a assessment.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Server Timing specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/server-timing/
In the browser Dev Tools, focus on the main request, there are the responses per engine in the Timing tab.
