[katello-devel] Content Filters - Regex question

[Mike McCune]

On 04/01/2013 05:45 PM, Partha Aji wrote:
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> On Apr 1, 2013, at 7:51 PM, David Davis<daviddavis at redhat.com>  wrote:
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>> +1
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>> David
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Og Maciel"<omaciel at redhat.com>
>>> To: "Partha Aji"<paji at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "katello-devel"<katello-devel at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 7:11:10 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Content Filters - Regex question
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Partha Aji"<paji at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Tom McKay"<thomasmckay at redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: "katello-devel"<katello-devel at redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 7:03:15 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Content Filters - Regex question
>>>>
>>>> Sadly we are not even using our search engine here, since pulp's filtering
>>>> syntax is based off mongo which is quite different.
>>>>
>>>> Partha
>>>
>>> That stinks... Having different syntax for searching depending on the context
>>> is very confusing to the end user.  :/
>>> --
>>> Og Maciel
>>>
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> i understand and agree, but there is not much we can do unless pulp decides to change its filters syntax and use elastics format. What would help here is telling me which one of a, b, c options is preferable..
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short term I'd go with (b)

What I think Justin and others are getting at is that we really need is 
a Katello specific search syntax that is easy for users to understand 
and we could translate into the sub-system required format (from 
Katello-Syntax to MongoDB/ElasticSearch)

Mike