Search Engine Project

This repository contains a search engine project with the following parts

• Engine

This is the main engine class library that handles indexing the documents and querying the indexes

• Engine.Test

This contains the tests which are used to verify that the Engine is performing the actions that it should

• GUI

This is a GUI written in WPF. It consumes the Engine class library directly and provides a UI for searching documents and uploading new documents to be indexed

• API

This is a rest API written with .NET framework that consumes the Engine and provides endpoints for searching and indexing documents

How to Run/Build

• Engine

You can set either

1. Set the mongodb uri via the Connector.SetMongoUri
2. Install mongodb locally and run it. The connector defaults to using a local instance

• Engine.Test

Ensure the Engine project is built then open this project and run it in any IDE of your choice

• GUI

Ensure the Engine project is built. Setup your AWS secrets and credentials using the instructions here.

• API

Ensure the engine project is built. Install the required server for running the project eg Windows