[MKSearch-dev] Week 52 and 53 round up

[Phil Shaw]

The whole system is tested and running on Fedora Core 4 now and 
there's not much standing in the way of a beta release. I would like 
to run some tests with the distribution next week, and add some notes 
to the Web site, but it's pretty much ready to go...

Best regards,

Phil


Friday 7 October
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Introduced an AbstractApplicationContext and refactored the 
getStoreDirectory method to enable relative paths in 
ServletApplicationContext (for easy deployment on FC4). Added tests 
for the key methods in these classes and made adjustments to the 
HttpQuery and AbstractRepositoryManager tests as necessary. 

Added the JSpider JAR to the Tomcat deployment (temporarily), changed 
the repository file path to a relative one and the Ant home property 
'local' configuration to a Windows-style file path with escaped back 
slashes.  

Created a test release of MKSearch and a first draft WAR deployment. 

Monday 10 October 
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Modified the XhtmlResultRenderer class to introduce rolling page 
navigation when there are more than 9 pages of results. Refactored to 
simplify the functions for adding next and previous links, and the 
page navigation itself. Also modified other parts of the class 
hierarchy to adapt to the changes required for page navigation. 

Removed the getValue(row, column) method from QueryResult and updated 
the QueryResultTag and JSP results pages to use new numeric attribute 
for results rendering mode. Added coverage test suites for 
PluginApplicationContext and XhtmlResultRenderer.  

Update to localised build properties and filters for new Windows 
drive references (clean install!).  

Thursday 13 October
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First test run for the query component on Fedora Core 4 with Tomcat 
5. Many path references did not resolve correctly, so changed CSS 
references to relative paths and hard coded the repository file 
reference.  

Prefixed paths in QueryBuilderTag with the request context path so 
that the MKSearch query application can be deployed irrespective of 
its path, and added a static manifest file to the application source 
directory.  

Completed working draft of the war-mksearch.sh script and removed 
echo of script directory path from all other scripts. All paths 
resolving correctly.

Friday 14 October 
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Corrected a minor error case in QueryBuilderTag, optimised several 
string constants and simplified the logic for several methods. Also 
introduced a Locale argument to the lowercase conversion to allow for 
non-English SchemaProperty types via a new getLocale method.  

Added a default context path to the MockHttpServletRequest class and 
extended the QueryBuilderTag tests to check non-default context path 
handling. Created a MockQueryResult class to help test 
XhtmlResultRenderer navigation methods.  

Refactored the ApplicationContext hierarchy to remove the query 
application's dependency on JSpider. Required a template method, re-
organisation of AbstractApplicationContext methods and a final change 
to the servlet context configuration scheme. Updated the web.xml 
configuration and HttpQueryTest to conform to the new scheme.  

Simplified the Ant build.xml and bash war-mksearch.sh script to 
exclude the JSpider JAR from the query application WAR file. Updated 
the Ant filters files with simple file name references for the Sesame 
repository, even though the  name is not currently copied dynamically.

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Free, open source metadata search engine with RDF storage and query.