Add Elastic Workplace Search connector

[dadoonet]

Let's connect to as well to https://swiftype.com/documentation/enterprise-search/api/custom-sources

[AncKal94]

Can we use workplace search along with fscrawler?
Our basic task is Document ranking based on query.

[dadoonet]

@AncKal94 Not yet. This is issue is still opened.

[seanstory]

I'd had a similar idea! I've built a few things that might be of use:

• Workplace Search: Java, a JVM client and SDK for workplace search.
• Custom API Source Archetype, building off the above, a Maven Archetype designed towards bootstrapping JVM-based Custom Sources for Workplace Search
• Filesystem Custom API Source, building off both the above, a naive implementation of a filesystem crawler. I would LOVE to see your much more robust crawler supplant it, and would happily help out if you'd like :)

[dadoonet]

Amazing @seanstory. I was expecting a JAVA client for workplace search server. That was the main missing piece to make this feature happen in FSCrawler.
I can hopefully start working on this soon 😊

Any idea if your code will become "official" at some point or moved to elastic repo?

[seanstory]

I was expecting a JAVA client for workplace search server.

Me too! 😆 That wasn't how I'd planned to spend the first half of my spacetime. And be forewarned - it's got a lot of TODOs lingering - I pretty much only built the features I needed, plus low-hanging fruit.

Any idea if your code will become "official" at some point or moved to elastic repo?

I don't know. I've got a brief call scheduled with my manager (@goodroot) next week to talk about "next steps" for my spacetime work. Long-term, I expect we'll add more official language clients for Enterprise Search, but @jonasll would be the one to ask there.

[dadoonet]

Note to self, I will probably have to switch to a Docker Compose maven plugin instead of using Fabric8 plugin.