813521 - DXR Search Add-On

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: DXR, defect)

Description

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

Users have stated that the following would be nice to have feature of DXR: "I think I'd actually want to get this hooked into the address bar so I can have search suggestions as I go... That would be nice"

Best way to implement this will most likely be through a add-on

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

An opensearch plugin could provide a basic version in the search box and those suggestions will eventually appear in the address bar of Firefox too.

Comment 2

[chdhry.namrata]

Hey I'd like to work on it. I'm new here and keen on contributing, so could you help me work my way around it?

Comment 3

[Peter Elmers [:new_one]]

Hi chdrhy.namrata! Are you still interested in working on this bug?

If you are, I would suggest looking at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox.
As an example, here's Bugzilla's OpenSearch file: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/search_plugin.cgi.

Then we would add the XML OpenSearch plugin to the project, under dxr/static.
For autodiscovery, consider adding the <link rel="search"...> to dxr/static/templates/layout.html, which our other templates extend.

Comment 5

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

There's a working example plugin (based on the docs in comment 3) in bug 1203413 comment 3

Comment 6

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Hi! Still interested in working on this? This might help you get started:

(In reply to Robert Helmer [:rhelmer] from comment #5)
> There's a working example plugin (based on the docs in comment 3) in bug
> 1203413 comment 3

Comment 7

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to Robert Helmer [:rhelmer] from comment #6)
> Hi! Still interested in working on this? This might help you get started:
> 
> (In reply to Robert Helmer [:rhelmer] from comment #5)
> > There's a working example plugin (based on the docs in comment 3) in bug
> > 1203413 comment 3

Comment 8

[Axel Grude [:realRaven]]

whoever has time to work on this, please uploade it to

http://mycroftproject.com/

there is already a dxr search plugin for m-c there:

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=dxr

Please write on for comm-central as well!!
thanks so much!

Comment 9

[Erik Rose [:erik][:erikrose]]

Actually, the best approach would probably be an OpenSearch (http://www.opensearch.org/Home) plugin, embedded in DXR itself. Then you could browse to a tree, pull down FF's search menu, and add the DXR search for that tree--nothing to install!

Comment 10

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

We are not going to work on that for dxr!
Please use https://searchfox.org/ instead