Demo Kit: Global Search Misses to Crawl Some References

Tested OpenUI5 version:

• 1.56.4
• 1.59.0-SNAPSHOT

URL (minimal example if possible):

https://openui5nightly.hana.ondemand.com/#/search/QuickViewGroupElementType

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Open the above page which shows the search results for e.g. QuickViewGroupElementType
2. Go to this API reference page. Notice that QuickViewGroupElementType is clearly mentioned there.

What is the expected result?

The search result page includes all mentions of the searched query. In the above case, the API reference page of sap.m.QuickViewGroupElement should be included in the result page as well.

What happens instead?

The result page doesn’t show everything even though the search query is clearly mentioned in other locations within Demo Kit.

Any other information? (attach screenshot if possible)

It would be nice if the global search is enhanced / fixed so that users can easily find out where the entered (enum) type is used. Currently, this doesn’t work.

For example, how can I find easily all uses of a certain type like sap.m.Button?

[codeworrior]

“A dot is a dot is a dot” (based loosely on this one)

My guess was wrong, it’s not a cleanup issue. When you search for “sap.m.InstanceManager.closeAllDialogs”, you’ll find the expected hit in MessageBox. The indexing currently doesn’t understand what it is indexing. Qualified names look all the same for it, it is not able to split “sap.m.InstanceManager.closeAllDialogs” into class name and method name.

I think we can improve this. At least in the context of a @link tag, we should be able to recognize cross references and handle them accordingly.

[codeworrior]

No, definitely not. If you search for the word “tapping” which is used in the same description as InstanceManager you’ll also find the MessageBox among the search hits.

I guess the reason why InstanceManager is not found might be a too aggressive cleanup of the input text. Maybe all tags together with their content are removed (…InstanceManager…), but that’s just a guess. I’ll look into it and let you know.