[Developers] Newly created types not showing up in autocomplete searchbox

[brendan]

I haven't verified that this was true in this particular case but...  
autocomplete/search results come from our Lucene-based indexer.  As  
such, there exists a process by which the index is updated.  Normally,  
the index catches up to the graph db's in seconds (or less) but during  
a data load (for example) the graphs can race ahead of the index  
updater.  All you can do is wait.  This doesn't happen very often but  
when it does, I wonder if there is some way we could communicate that  
state to the user?  The thing is, the vast majority of users in most  
cases are blissfully un-aware when the indexes are slightly behind.   
So it's designing for a corner case.  Maybe we could do something  
specifically for the schema creation case, as this seems to be the  
most common scenario where this would be an issue. Falling back to  
direct-graph queries in this case might be an option.

Brendan

On May 12, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Kirrily Robert wrote:

> I've noticed this too, on OTG, but it fixed itself pretty quickly.
> Someone else was mentioning it yesterday though.  We should probably
> raise a bug in Jira.
>
> As a workaround: if you can't find your type in autocomplete, you can
> type /base/mybase/mytype to get to it.
>
> K.
>
> On May 11, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Michael Callaghan wrote:
>
>> I've just created a new base on sandbox, added 5 new types, but now
>> can't link those types together via properties because my types are
>> not showing up in autocomplete.   I do know how to create types and
>> properties programmatically but just now I'd like to "press a few
>> buttons" in the ui and do exactly what I was doing several hours ago
>> with no problem ...?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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