Grouper Developers Forum

[Shilen Patel <>]

GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> --On 10 July 2007 12:46 -0500 "blair christensen." <> 
> wrote:
>
> > On 7/7/07, GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> > <>
> >  wrote:
> > > > 4.  Performing a group search takes about 20-30 seconds even if no
> > > > results are returned.
> > > That is less surprising. Given the number of groups you have any search
> > > is likely to return a large number of results - however, depending 
> > > on the
> > > context the UI will then try to filter* the list - which may result 
> > > in no
> > > results.
> > >
> > > *By checking if the current Subject has a specific privilege, or one 
> > > of a
> > > set of privileges.
> > >
> > > I think the API is doing a %term% type match which may not be efficient
> > > against a large database
> > >
> > > If you do a search which cannot possibly return a result e.g. ZZZZZZZ,
> > > how long does that take?
> >
> > Gary: What API methods is the UI using for making these group
> > searches?  At least two methods (so far) that I've checked on will
> > result in full table scans.
>
> The default search is:
>
> GrouperQuery q = GrouperQuery.createQuery(s,new 
> GroupAttributeFilter(attr,query,StemFinder.findByName(s,from)));
> Set res = q.getGroups();
>
> where 'attr' would be 'displayName'.
>
> The default search is configurable through media.properties:
>
> # Determines if the name or extension field (or neither) are searched
> search.default.search-in-name-or-extension=
>
> # Determines if the display name or display extension (or neither) is 
> searched
> search.default.search-in-display-name-or-extension=name
>
> I assume Duke have not changed the defaults. 

That's correct.  We're using the default values for those two search 
settings.

-- Shilen