irc-search/README.md

A search engine for IRC logs. Based on Lucene and Netty. Runs as an HTTP server, exposing REST endpoints for indexing and searching.

Build and Run

First install Apache Maven. Then execute this command to run the server at port 9090:

mvn package && java -cp target/dependency/*:target/* net.abhinavsarkar.ircsearch.Server 9090

Index chat lines

$ cat ireq | json_pp
{
   "botName" : "some",
   "chatLines" : [
      {
         "timestamp" : 12312312312,
         "user" : "abhinav",
         "message" : "hi"
      },
      {
         "timestamp" : 12312312312,
         "user" : "abhinav",
         "message" : "hi"
      }
   ],
   "channel" : "as",
   "server" : "ima"
}

$ curl -X POST -d @ireq localhost:9090/index

Search

$ cat sreq | json_pp
{
   "botName" : "some",
   "page" : 0,
   "query" : "hi user:abhinav",
   "channel" : "as",
   "server" : "ima",
   "pageSize" : 10
}

$ curl -X POST -d @sreq localhost:9090/search -s | json_pp
{
   "page" : 0,
   "query" : "hi user:abhinav",
   "channel" : "as",
   "pageSize" : 10,
   "botName" : "some",
   "chatLines" : [
      {
         "timestamp" : 12312312312,
         "user" : "abhinav",
         "message" : "hi"
      },
      {
         "timestamp" : 12312312312,
         "user" : "abhinav",
         "message" : "hi"
      }
   ],
   "server" : "ima",
   "totalResults" : 24
}