v3.x Setup questions

[hfloyd]

Hi @skttl ! I was thrilled to find your package, since it seems to operate very similarly to my own v7/v8 "FullTextSearch" package. I'm glad I won't have to undertake a .Net Core update of that codebase 🙂

I've been working through the setup on a v10 migration project, following the docs for the current stable version (v3.1.0) - https://github.com/skttl/umbraco-fulltextsearch8/blob/master/docs/developers-guide-v2.md

And though I'd prefer to use the internal rendering (since I know how problematic HTTP Rendering can be (since my own version relied upon that), I figured that I'd set up the service for HTTP, in case it's needed. However, when I attempt to add it to Startup.cs, I cannot find the classes referenced:

For the time being I've excluded that line. I rebuilt the solution, and as a test did a "Save & Publish" on the Homepage node. Checking the ExternalIndex, I see these fields:

But notice that the "FullTextContent" is empty. There are no related messages in the Log Viewer.

This is my config:

What am I missing here?

[hfloyd]

I downloaded the source code and attached a debugger to see what was happening "OnPublish" - and as I suspected (as per comments here - (https://github.com/skttl/umbraco-fulltextsearch8/blob/master/docs/developers-guide-v4.md#rendering)) the internal Rendering wasn't going to work on my site
<!-- Error rendering template with id 2853: Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.ModelBinders.ModelBindingException ...
because I have a DefaultController override which wraps the IPublishedContent with another Model. It would be cool if the rendering could handle the route hijacking the way that Umbraco itself does...

Anyway, seems I need to be using the HTTP rendering, and thus the original issue remains - where I cannot register the HttpPageRenderer service.

[hfloyd]

I decided to use the 4.0 alpha version, and after some fiddling with the config to resolve a local SSL issue, was able to get the Homepage to fill in those new Index fields with content. Yay! Oddly, when I publish certain pages, no errors are reported, but neither are the new "FullText" index fields visible when I look at Settings > Examine Management > External Index >[search]> [open field list for a recently published node]

If I check the database table [dbo].[FullTextCache], I see records with content in the "Text" column...

I noticed this: code: public class AddFullTextItemsToIndex : INotificationHandler<UmbracoApplicationStartingNotification>...
which seems to update everything at App Start... but even after restarting the site, the index fields are still missing.

Additionally, if I set breakpoints in the sourcecode, in IndexProviderTransformingIndexValues I see the two fields getting added to updatedValues... yet the fields are still not visible in the External Index. So frustrating.

[skttl]

Hi @hfloyd

That does indeed sound frustrating. The HTTP rendering is added in v4, so as you found out, you need the alpha right now to handle that.

In settings, there is a dashboard for Full Text Search (in the tree on the left), that should report how many indexable nodes there is, and how many indexed nodes there is. Can you see what numbers that one produce?

Also, try reindexing through that dashboard, just to test that it actually can index.

[hfloyd]

Thanks, @skttl

This is what it says:

And in the Examine Management:

There are 752 content nodes in the site, 351 have a template assigned, and there are likely some additional which are unpublished.
The only limit via FTS config is a boolean property "umbracoSearchHide", which is present on 223 Content nodes, but "true" on only 2.
So ~300 "indexable" nodes, sounds about right.

If I click the "Reindex Nodes" button on the FTS dashboard, it works for a bit, then shows the checkmark, so I assume no errors encountered there.

However, when I then go to Examine Management and pull up an individual node - "Our Products", a page which, when I view it, has a template and renders a full page of content. When I check for its ID in the DB table, it's there:

Yet still the Examine "fields" doesn't include the "FullTextContent" or "FullTextPath" fields.

🤷🏻‍♀️

Ps. After the Reindex, this is what the Status is:

[hfloyd]

Some more info...

I went ahead and pushed my updates to Umbraco Cloud, where the site will be eventually hosted. Using the FTS Dashboard, I did the Reindex, and it now has this status:

When I checked that tricky "Our Products" page in the Examine Management area I see the fields exist!

but, the content is empty.

A pop over to the Log Viewer and I found errors related to the rendering - issues with the SSL checking code I had added to fix an issue I had encountered on my local machine, due to using a development cert, I figured (I always get browser "insecure" errors when I work locally). I corrected the problem, and re-deployed to Cloud. I then re-saved the "Our Products" page, in hopes that it would then populate the FullTextContent field - but to my dismay, though the rendering now completed successfully, the two fields had disappeared again. 😣 What is so strange is that this problem doesn't affect ALL the content nodes, only certain ones.

[hfloyd]

Ps. I've moved this specific issue over to here: #93)