Text search in geocache descriptions

[following5]

Both OCDE and OCPL maintain the same fulltext index which allows to search for words in geocache description texts. The index consists of CRC32 hashes of all the words in the description texts, optionally excluding a set of tivial words.

I think it would be a nice feature to add text search to OKAPI. This would mean that OKAPI needs to calculate the hashes with the same algorithm as the OC site, so the code needs to be shared somehow.

[following5]

Are you sure that you wanted to reply here to the OKAPI feature request, not in the OCPL bug report opencaching/opencaching-pl#1227?

If OCPL discontinues the fulltext search index, we may still implement OCDE text search in OKAPI. Using google instead is not a real alternative for OKAPI apps. ;-)

[kojoty]

@following5, Sorry, you right - I wanted to reply in thread you mentioned but I started from link wrong email :) (I moved comments to the right thread)

Anyway: you're also right - Google is not an alternative for OKAPI search, but do we need OKAPI search especially in this cost? I'm not definitely "against" but I'm trying to imagine the situation when I would like to find all geocaches with some word in log through for example c:geo in the forest? Do you know the real use-case for this feature?

[following5]

My proposal here ist just to allow searching geocache descriptions. This currently costs about 300 MB disk space at OCDE and OCPL, which is already allocated. No additional costs.

The huge additional cost mentioned in the OCPL issue just refers to searching log texts, which I did not propose for OKAPI.