Details about some important class

Details about some important class:

SearchBuilder.php

Parse and send parameters to Elasticsearch class. Get search results from Elasticsearch class.

This class has four major functions:

• setElasticSearchIndexes

  Get elasticsearch indexes for the selected repositories. Output: a string, index names concatenated by comma.

• setElasticSearchResults

  Get elasticsearch results for selected repositories. Input: a string, index names concatenated by comma. Ouput: an array, search results for each selected repository

• setTotalRows

  Get total number of search results for all selected repositories. Input: an array, output of setElasticSearchResults() function Output: int

• setRepositoryRows Get number of search results for each repository Input: an array, output of setElasticSearchResults() function Output: an array

ConstructSearchView.php

Construct the search results and hyperlinks for the search.php page @input an instance of SearchBuilder class @output $this->repositoryFilter: an array of data for repository filter $this->dataTypeFilter: an array of data for data type filter $this->searchResults: an array of data for search results

• setRepositoryFilter

  Generate data for repository filter

• setDataTypeFilter

  Generate data for data type filter

• setSearchResults Generate search data for displaying