Compass search

[Vassil Dichev <vd...@apache.org>]

>> I looked at the compass stuff the other day. What is strange is that
>> it doesn't even work if you use the file-based indexing. I put traces
>> everywhere in the search routine and still didn't see anything. It
>> would great to be able to see what the compass indexes include but I
>> didn't find a way to do this.
>
> I found Luke, which is supposedly able to browse a lucene index:
> http://www.getopt.org/luke/. I didn't see any results, not sure if
> this is because it doesn't work or because the index is empty. I'm
> almost sure nothing gets indexed, though, because on my machine I only
> get 3 files of total size 48 bytes :)
>
> What I don't see is how the search data gets saved. I expected to find
> this in some of the save/commit/create hooks of lift (afterSave,
> afterCreate or afterCommit), but I don't see it even in our old
> version on googlecode. I don't remember who committed the compass
> code, maybe we should ask Darren?

I don't know how search worked before, but I added a handler which
saved the message on save and it worked. I will have to extract the
save into an html template, because it's still in UserView.