In [1] and [2] we discussed the need of a Result.results property and how we can
avoid unclear code. This patch implements a class for the reslut-lists of
engines::
searx.result_types.EngineResults
A simple example for the usage in engine development::
from searx.result_types import EngineResults
...
def response(resp) -> EngineResults:
res = EngineResults()
...
res.add( res.types.Answer(answer="lorem ipsum ..", url="https://example.org") )
...
return res
[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/4183#pullrequestreview-257400034
[2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/4183#issuecomment-2614301580
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
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>
A SearXNG maintainer on Matrix reported a traceback::
File "searxng-src/searx/engines/xpath.py", line 272, in response
dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "searx-pyenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 850, in fromstring
doc = document_fromstring(html, parser=parser, base_url=base_url, **kw)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "searx-pyenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 738, in document_fromstring
raise etree.ParserError(
lxml.etree.ParserError: Document is empty
I don't have an example to reproduce the issue, but the issue and this patch are
clearly recognizable even without an example.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
The use of img_src AND thumbnail in the default results makes no sense (only a
thumbnail is needed). In the current state this is rather confusing, because
img_src is displayed like a thumbnail (small) and thumbnail is displayed like an
image (large).
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
We have built up detailed documentation of the *settings* and the *engines* over
the past few years. However, this documentation was still spread over various
chapters and was difficult to navigate in its entirety.
This patch rearranges the Settings & Engines documentation for better
readability.
To review new ordered docs::
make docs.clean docs.live
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
no_result_for_http_status contains a list of HTTP status.
These HTTP status are seen an empty result list.
In other cases an exception is thrown as usual.
Previously raise_for_httperror were ignoring all HTTP error,
which make defective engines invisible in the stats.
Instead of raising an exception and therefore hiding all results of the engine.
It make sense to remove that requirement in order to allow the implementation of
search engines that do not always have a description. In fact some search
engines that in 99% of the case have a description like Brave Search or Mojeek
crash completely if they for some reason included a result with no description.
To test this patch try Mojeek:
!mjk xyz
before and after the patch.
Suggested-by: 0xhtml in https://github.com/searx/searx/discussions/2933
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
- pylint searx/engines/xpath.py
- fix indentation of some long lines
- add logging
- add doc-strings
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Make 'soft_max_redirects' configurable per Xpath engine::
- name : <engine-name>
engine : xpath
soft_max_redirects: 1
...
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
before commit 58d72f2, category was not set in xpath.py,
so searx/engines/__init__py was setting the category to ['general']
the commit 58d72f2 set the category to [] which is not replaced by searx/engines/__init__.py
consequence: the mojeek engine is hidden in the preferences.
this commit revert the xpath.py change.
close#2368
Xpath engine and results template changed to account for the fact that
archive.org doesn't cache .onions, though some onion engines migth have
their own cache.
Disabled by default. Can be enabled by setting the SOCKS proxies to
wherever Tor is listening and setting using_tor_proxy as True.
Requires Tor and updating packages.
To avoid manually adding the timeout on each engine, you can set
extra_proxy_timeout to account for Tor's (or whatever proxy used) extra
time.
