Search is mostly not working now

[oddhack]

I just built and published the 1.4.317 spec update, with the fullSite.zip generated from CI in https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Site/actions/runs/14928575716, and am seeing some awful behavior in the search. Go to https://docs.vulkan.org/spec/latest/index.html and type the following series of characters:

• 'c' - returns a lot of terms with 'c' in them
• 'o', then 'm', then 'p' - returns nothing (not an empty popup - no popup at all)
• 'r' - returns a bunch of terms with 'compr' in them
• 'e', 's', 's' - returns much the same list with the substring in them
• 'e', 'd' - returns nothing, although the search term 'compressed' is common in the spec

Likewise searching for 'tensor' or 'tensors', a common term after adding a new VK_ARM_tensors extension, returns only one result.

I see the same behavior in the tutorial component, or with 'in this component' unchecked, so it's not something specific to the spec.

This is not functional as it stands. I compared to the previous 1.4.316 build which gives useful results for the intermediate search terms.

[SaschaWillems]

It's very odd. It does work for me if I omit the last character.

E.g. "tensor" gets me zero results, "tenso" gives me a proper list of results for "tensor".

[gpx1000]

The problem is the index is cached in your browser in the previous version and it needs to download/uncompress to have the same state in this version. To verify, open the site, and wait about 2 min or so then try the search. I have a new version that stores the uncompressed index in cache. If you have downloaded the targz then it is the time to uncompress only vs the time to download and uncompress.

[gpx1000]

Please verify that search-index.js is in the root directory of the site folder. Also, I'm seeing a 404 for the site.webmanifest.

[oddhack]

search-index.js is in the root directory and there is a file '_/site.webmanifest'. All I do is take fullSite.zip from CI and extract it in the proper directory of docs.vulkan.org.

[gpx1000]

Understood I'll take a look and see if there's anything we need to change immediately or wait for the updated search improvements already in plan.

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[SaschaWillems]

We really need to find a fix for this. Wanted to search for barriers in the spec, and neither "barrier" nor "barriers" returns a single result :/

[gpx1000]

barr returns a bunch but not the full word; that indicates the patricia-trie is working correctly but the lunr search under it isn't... might be a deeper problem. Will take a look.