[GRASS-dev] proposal for g.search module

[Vaclav Petras]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ahoj Vašku,
>
> not sure about the maps. wouldn't be better to extend g.list?
>
Perhaps, the search could include title names as well - this would be the
extension to g.list. This makes sense as you usually know if you are
searching maps/groups/... or modules.

On the other hand, g.search could provide unified simple search interface
for searching/listing maps and modules - a simple "fulltext" search for
word. This would wrap more general g.list pattern search interface. There
is few other things we could search: Mapsets, Locations, and color tables.
But let's ignore this for now.

> about the name: g.module.search?
>
g.search aspect
g.module.search aspect
g.search.module aspect

g.module.search sounds good. In GUI the tree and search tab is called
Search modules, renamed from ambiguous Module search. Your original
g.search is shorter and since it will be used in the command line, we
should probably keep it short. So, at the end, I would keep g.search unless
somebody is against that.

> need to work on the output a bit more...
>
Also, keep in mind that the XML may change at one point. See explanations
in:

[GRASS-dev] wxgui_items.xml: outdated
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-October/077137.html

> would -g flag be useful as well?
>
Certainly, although not for me now.

> glad you like it
>
I suggest to put it to trunk as soon as you are comfortable with the code
and basic features.

> jachym
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015, 17:13 Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Jachym Cepicky <
>> jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've tried to implement command line alternative to module search based
>>> on keywords, which is available in the gui - it's called g.search
>>>
>>> Any chance, you might find this useful ? Any comment to the source code
>>> and outputs?
>>>
>>> https://github.com/jachym/g.search
>>>
>>
>> I think it is awesome:
>>
>> $ g.extension extension=g.search url=https://github.com/jachym/g.search
>> $ g.search MLC
>>
>> i.gensig
>>     Description: Generates statistics for i.maxlik from raster map.
>>     Keywords: imagery,classification,supervised classification,Maximum
>> Likelihood Classification,MLC,signatures
>>
>> i.maxlik
>>     Description: Classifies the cell spectral reflectances in imagery
>> data. Classification is based on the spectral signature information
>> generated by either i.cluster, g.gui.iclass, or i.gensig.
>>     Keywords: imagery,classification,Maximum Likelihood Classification,MLC
>>
>> The code is minimalistic, so the duplication with GUI code is minimal or
>> none.
>>
>> I suggest to put it to trunk, but to consider the name first. g.search
>> sounds good but does it search modules or maps or both? Are the maps a
>> possible extension of the current functionality?
>>
>> Vaclav
>>
>
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