FlatFileSearchSource

Example

FlatFileSearchSource Demo

This demo uses a FlatFileSearchSource configured to search an Excel spreadsheet saved as a CSV file which contains a number of links to technical references.

Title	Keywords

The format of the flat file is:


URL,Title,Keywords
http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part0/,SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer,SOAP
file:///C:\Java\jdk1.4\docs\api\index.html,Java 1.4 Javadoc,Java 1.4
...

JSP Code for the demo:

  <search:SearchForm
     formName="TechLinks" 
     categoryName="TechLinks"
     action="FlatFileSearchSource.jsp"
   />

<center>
  <results:PageLinkForm
     rendererClass="com.raritantechnologies.quickstart.taglibrary.VCRPageLinkRenderer"
     pageSize="10" isFirst="true" />
</center>

  <results:DisplayForm formName="TechLinksDisplay" pageSize="20" />

XML Configuration for this demo:
Search Form Configuration:

  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
  <!--  SearchForm for FlatFileSearchSource (TechLinks) demo                  -->
  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
  <SearchForm name="TechLinks" category="TechLinks" >
    <Field ID="Title" type="text" width="50" name="Title" /> 
    <Field ID="Keywords" type="text" width="50" name="Keywords" />
  </SearchForm>

Display Form Configuration:

  <!-- ===================================================================== -->
  <!--        DisplayForm for FlatFileSearchSource                           -->
  <!-- ===================================================================== -->
  <DisplayForm name="TechLinksDisplay"
           rendererClass="com.raritantechnologies.quickstart.taglibrary.GridDisplayFormRenderer" 
           tableProps="width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='1' cellspacing='0' class='itemTable'" 
           action="FlatFileSearchSource.jsp"
           defaultSortField="Title" defaultSortDir="asc" >
            
      <Columns>
        <!-- =============================================================== -->
        <!--                       Title Column                              -->
        <!-- =============================================================== -->
        <Column name="Title" width="450" sortable="true" class="itemCell" >
           <HeaderRenderer rendererClass="com.raritantechnologies.quickstart.taglibrary.SortHeaderRenderer" 
                action="FlatFileSearchSource.jsp" 
                displayName="Title" name="Title" align="center" displayType="double" linkText="true" 
                activeClass="inactiveSort" inactiveClass="inactiveSort"
                ascActiveIcon="/FrameworkDocumentation/images/arrowup_off.gif" 
                dscActiveIcon="/FrameworkDocumentation/images/arrowdwn_off.gif" 
                ascInactiveIcon="/FrameworkDocumentation/images/arrowup.gif" 
                dscInactiveIcon="/FrameworkDocumentation/images/arrowdwn.gif" />
                
             <ResultRenderer rendererClass="com.raritantechnologies.quickstart.taglibrary.FieldHyperlinkRenderer"
                             target="_top" >
               <HrefField ID="URL" />
               <LabelField ID="Title" />
             </ResultRenderer>
        </Column>

        <!-- =============================================================== -->
        <!--                     Keywords Column                             -->
        <!-- =============================================================== -->
        <Column name="Keywords" width="250" sortable="false" class="itemCell" >
           <HeaderRenderer rendererClass="com.raritantechnologies.quickstart.taglibrary.SortHeaderRenderer" 
                action="FlatFileSearchSource.jsp" 
                displayName="Keywords" name="Keywords" align="center" displayType="none" 
                activeClass="inactiveSort" inactiveClass="inactiveSort"  />
                
             <ResultRenderer rendererClass="com.raritantechnologies.quickstart.taglibrary.SimpleFieldRenderer" >    
               <Field ID="Keywords" />
             </ResultRenderer>
        </Column>

      </Columns>
    </DisplayForm>

FlatFileSearchSource configuration:


  <SourceType name="TechLinks" type="FlatFileSource"
        sourceFactoryClass="com.raritantechnologies.searchApp.FlatFileSearchSource" 
        queryProcessor="com.raritantechnologies.searchApp.FlatFileSearchSource"
        delimiter=","
        blankQueryReturnsAll="true" 
        fieldOperator="AND" caseSensitive="false" >

    <Columns>
      <Column>URL</Column>
      <Column>Title</Column>
      <Column>Keywords</Column>
    </Columns>

    <Files>
        <File name="BASE_PATH/data/TechnologyLinks/TechnologyLinks.csv" />
    </Files>
  </SourceType>

Title:
Keywords: