1056292 - Add facet endpoints to open search plugins

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Search Activity, defect)

Description

[Eric Edens [:eedens]]

We need to support faceted end points (Bug 1042960). Since we are depending on the opensearch plugins to specify search engine information, we could add facets as <Url> elements.

We can use Bing.xml [1] as an example, where there are different Url entities (differentiated by the `type` attr) for both phone and tablet screen sizes.

http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/locales/en-US/searchplugins/bing.xml

Comment 1

[Eric Edens [:eedens]]

We can extract the user's current query by using the {searchTerms} param from the open search files, http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/locales/en-US/searchplugins/bing.xml#20

Comment 2

[Eric Edens [:eedens]]

Whoops, note meant for bug 1041604

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I'll note that "type" is probably the wrong approach here, and we should be using phone/tablet/etc as rel values, since "type" means what type of response is expected, and they'll all be text/html...

Comment 4

[Eric Edens [:eedens]]

rel it is! From email discussion:

> Mike Connor <[e-mail]> wrote:
> http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#Url_rel_values is
> probably a good start.  We recently added |rel=“searchform”| to the desktop
> side to replace the old MozSearch <SearchForm> element.
>
> In terms of facets, I would suggest we would define as many rel values as we
> want to use, and present native facets based on the presence of <Url>
> elements with the correct rel attribute.

Here's an example of using rel: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/en-US/searchplugins/google.xml#35

Comment 5

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

This is an ex-Search Activity now (bug 1221344).