GSoC 2024 - Enhanced Search Functionality for OpenELIS - Final Presentation

Hello everyone!

I am excited to share the final presentation for my GSoC project. This summer has been an incredible journey of learning and achievements, and I want to share my experiences and the milestones reached.

Project Overview

Project Name - Enhanced Search Functionality for OpenELIS

Mentor - @Moses_Mutesasira

Project Report - Github gist link

Achievements

  • Configured the end-to-end setup for Hibernate Search and Lucene index storage
  • Mapped Patient and Person entities and their fields to Lucene indexes using appropriate annotations.
  • Created a custom normalizer that includes lowercase and ascii-folding filters for the Keyword fields.
  • Created new implementations of the search results service layer and DAO interfaces.
  • Modified the existing service layer and DAO implementations.
  • Implemented Lucene queries in getSearchResults and getSearchResultsExact methods of LuceneSearchResultsDAOImpl class.
  • Added support for manually re-indexing the already persisted data using Hibernate Search MassIndexer .
  • Added unit and integration tests for the newly implemented code.

Concluding thoughts

I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to my mentor @Moses_Mutesasira for his guidance throughout the summer. His support was key to making this project successful.
I also want to thank the OpenELIS community, @aditya @Manish @vivekramakrishnakona @mherman22 @Agaba_Derrick_Junior and others, for their support throughout this journey. I look forward to continuing to work together with the OpenELIS community.

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