How it works

  1. Dovetail Search makes an HTTP request to the Dovetail Seeker web application with the search terms.

    GET http://myserver/seeker/search.castle?query=lorem
  2. Dovetail Seeker responds with JSON containing the results. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write, and also easy for machines to parse and generate.

    Here's an example of a JSON response:

    {"SearchResults":[{"Score":1,"Domain":"case","Id":"7","Title":"Case with lorem ipsum in the title","Summary":"Case History"}],
    "TotalNumberOfResults":1,
    "StartResultIndex":0,
    "SearchQuery":"lorem"}
  3. Dovetail Search then parses the JSON response, and displays the results.

Architecture

The following diagram illustrates the architecture of the search components.

See Also

Introduction

Extensibility

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