[ckan-dev] Why is tracking summary no longer stored in solr ?

Wed Jun 28 00:00:54 UTC 2017

That's part of one of my changes from about 3 years ago. Looks like I
misunderstood how the tracking info was being used, I'll revert that
part of the change and let's see if we can backport the fix to
supported ckan versions.

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Alex Gartner
<alexandru.gartner+ckan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I saw that in newer versions of CKAN the tracking summary is no longer
> pushed to solr. Even more, this is discouraged by both comments and code
> (https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/a5408647c18bcc3a6317a8c83cfb37c72068e90c/ckan/lib/search/index.py#L107).
> In other words, the code in the link above, removes any tracking summary
> information that might've been returned by package_show() because the values
> in solr might get old.
>
> On the other hand, the paster tracking update command seems to be updating
> solr:
> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/a5408647c18bcc3a6317a8c83cfb37c72068e90c/ckan/lib/cli.py#L1142
>
> So it seems I'm missing something but not sure what ?
> And in conclusion, is it a bad idea to store the tracking info in solr  ? It
> surely makes life easy to get this information via a simple
> package_search().
>
> Thank you,
> Alex Gartner
>
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