Simple search implementation guide simple-search-implementation-guide
The Simple search implementation are the materials from the Adobe Summit lab AEM Search Demystified. This page contains the materials from this lab. For a guided tour of the lab, please view the Lab workbook in the Presentation section of this page.
Presentation materials bookmarks
Bookmarks bookmarks-1
Tools tools
- Index Manager
- Explain Query
- CRXDE Lite > /oak:index/cqPageLucene
- CRX Package Manager
- QueryBuilder Debugger
- Oak Index Definition Generator
Chapters chapters
The Chapter links below assume the Initial Packages are installed on AEM Author at http://localhost:4502
Packages packages
Initial packages initial-packages
Chapter packages chapter-packages
Referenced materials reference-materials
Corrections and Follow-up corrections-and-follow-up
Corrections and clarifications from the lab discussions and answers to follow-up questions from attendees.
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How to stop re-indexing?
Re-indexing can be stopped via the IndexStats MBean available via AEM Web Console > JMX
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- Execute
abortAndPause()
to abort the re-indexing. This will lock the index to further re-indexing untilresume()
is invoked. - Executing
resume()
will restart the indexing process.
- Execute
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Documentation: https://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/query/indexing.html#async-index-mbean
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How can oak indexes support multiple tenants?
Oak supports placing indexes through-out the content tree, and these indexes will only index within that sub-tree. For example
/content/site-a/oak:index/cqPageLucene
could be create to index content only under/content/site-a
.An equivalent approach is to use the
includePaths
andqueryPaths
properties on an index under/oak:index
. For example:/oak:index/siteAcqPageLucene@includePaths=/content/site-a
/oak:index/siteAcqPageLucene@queryPaths=/content/site-a
The considerations with this approach are:
- Queries MUST specify a path restriction that is equal to the index’s query path scope, or be a descendant there of.
- Broader scoped indexes (for example
/oak:index/cqPageLucene
) will ALSO index the data, resulting in duplicative-ingestion and disk use cost. - May require duplicative configuration management (ex. adding the same indexRules across multiple tenant indexes if they must satisfy the same query sets)
- This approach is best served on the AEM Publish tier for custom site search, as on AEM Author, it is common for queries to be executed at high up the content tree for different tenants (for example, via OmniSearch) - different index definitions can result in different behavior based only on the path restriction.
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Where is a list of all available Analyzers?
Oak exposes a set of lucene-provides analyzer configuration elements for use in AEM.
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How to search for Pages and Assets in the same query?
New in AEM 6.3 is the ability to query for multiple node-types in the same provided query. The following QueryBuilder query. Note that each “sub-query” can resolve to its own index, so in this example, the
cq:Page
sub-query resolves to/oak:index/cqPageLucene
and thedam:Asset
sub-query resolves to/oak:index/damAssetLucene
.code language-plain group.p.or=true group.1_group.type=cq:Page # add all page restrictions to this group group.2_group.type=dam:Asset # add all asset restrictions to this group
results in the following query and query plan:
code language-plain QUERY:(//element(*, cq:Page) | //element(*, dam:Asset)) PLAN: [cq:Page] as [a] /* lucene:cqPageLucene(/oak:index/cqPageLucene) *:* */ union [dam:Asset] as [a] /* lucene:damAssetLucene(/oak:index/damAssetLucene) *:* */
Explore the query and results via QueryBuilder Debugger and AEM Chrome Plug-in.
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How to search over multiple paths in the same query?
New in AEM 6.3 is the ability to query across multiple paths in the same provided query. The following QueryBuilder query. Note that each “sub-query” may resolve to its own index.
code language-plain group.p.or=true group.1_group.type=cq:Page group.1_group.path=/content/docs/en/6-2 # add all page restrictions to this group group.2_group.type=cq:Page group.2_group.path=/content/docs/en/6-3 # add all asset restrictions to this group
results in the following query and query plan
code language-plain QUERY: (/jcr:root/content/docs/en/_x0036_-2//element(*, cq:Page) | /jcr:root/content/docs/en/_x0036_-3//element(*, cq:Page)) PLAN: [cq:Page] as [a] /* traverse "/content/docs/en/6-2//*" where isdescendantnode([a], [/content/docs/en/6-2]) */ union [cq:Page] as [a] /* traverse "/content/docs/en/6-3//*" where isdescendantnode([a], [/content/docs/en/6-3]) */
Explore the query and results via QueryBuilder Debugger and AEM Chrome Plug-in.