Re: [C2-devel] Carrot2 metasearch engine live demo question

[Lonnie C. <lo...@ou...>]

Oops, I mistakenly wrote "David" and if should have properly been "Dawid".

Sorry, Lonnie

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 5:09 AM, Lonnie Cumberland <lo...@ou...>
wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks again and it looks like Carrot2 may be a great addition to the
> project.
>
> As soon as we get a couple other parts of the search engine in place for
> the containers based approach then I will look at getting a DCS container
> set up for some testing.
>
> I appreciate you taking the time to discuss it with me and will keep the
> community up to date on the progress.
>
> Cheers and have a great weekend,
> Lonnie
>
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 2:54 AM, Dawid Weiss <daw...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> > My project is using Python, but it seems from what I have briefly read
>> that
>> > Carrot2 can be setup to run as a type of external server such that it
>> can be
>> > sent data and called from non-Java languages via REST.
>>
>> You need the DCS (document clustering server). It acts as a HTTP/REST
>> service and
>> you can query it from Python. There is no example written in Python
>> that ships with the DCS,
>> but it should be trivial to write one (even based on the Ruby example
>> that is in there).
>>
>> > I am wondering if Carrot2 could be setup as a Docker container service
>> that
>> > I could call from my Python code to cluster and return the data and
>>
>> Probably. I don't have that much experience with docker, but it's a
>> command-line script and a Java
>> service, so I'm sure it can be set up in a dockerized environment.
>>
>> > If this were possible then scaling could be done just by adding
>> > more Carrot2 docker containers.
>>
>> Again: very likely yes, DCS is stateless so you could run a HTTP
>> load-balancing proxy in front of your
>> DCS services and manage that.
>>
>> > If Carrot2 is setup as an external service and called by non-Java code
>> like
>> > my Python code, then does it support have multiple different instances
>> of a
>> > non-Java application calling a REST service concurrently?
>>
>> That's the point of a service exposed via HTTP/REST, unless I don't
>> understand your question.
>>
>> D.
>>
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