Overview

ECTSearch is a Python Search-as-a-Service Platform.

APIs

/seach/search.py contains APIs designed to use ECTSearch as a live service. It can create important statistics, search and test the system by sending HTTP request to it's different routes.

Each route takes a post request. Search-as-a-Service-Requests.json file contains some sample requests and contains important scenarios.

These routes are as follows:

Routes and options:

• /create_positional_index : Loads the documents from IBM Cloud Storage and creates positional index and some other important statistics.

  • Headers: token :
  • Body: {"language" : " ", "ibm_credentials_url" : " "}

  returns "Successfully created positional_index"

• /create_statistics : creates a JSON file and sets the values of top_k_results and champion_lists_status variables.

  • Headers: token :
  • Body: {"top_k_results" : " ","champion_lists_status" : " "}

  returns "Successfully created statistics file"

• /create_champion_lists: creates champion lists

  • Headers: token :
  • Body: {"range" : " "}

  returns "Successfully created champion lists"

• /search : used for searching

  • Headers: token :
  • Body: {"query" : " ", "ibm_credentials_url" : " "}

  returns query {#number: {'Title': '', 'URL': '', 'ID': ''} Retrieval Time: - seconds

• /test : loads test data and tests the system with Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain

  • Headers: token :
  • Body: {"ibm_credentials_url" : " "}

  returns Accuracy: