Command line tools to query Novus

Are there command line tools to query Novus? What I’m looking for is something that gives similar functionality to what Easel offers, but does so via command line tools so that they can be incorporated into scripts.

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Andrew Petrosie

I have not heard of a Novus command line tool, but Novus provides a Java based Product API in order to interact with it programmatically. This API provides very similar functionality to Easel. If you have Java experience this could be used to make a simple Java application which can be executed via a script.

[http://novusguidev.int.westgroup.com:8080/NovusDocTools/docs/AlternateAPI.doc][1]
[http://novusdocs.int.thomson.com:8080/NovusDocTools/downloads.jsp][2]

[1]: http://novusguidev.int.westgroup.com:8080/NovusDocTools/docs/AlternateAPI.doc
[2]: http://novusdocs.int.thomson.com:8080/NovusDocTools/downloads.jsp

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Andrew Petrosie

Ryan Morlok

Great point, Andrew. If anyone out there has worked on assembling your own tool chain of command line tools for interacting with Novus, it would be cool to post those as a project on Component Marketplace.

mtaylor

Proceed with caution. In general, building programatic functions to access online novus from "scripts" is dangerous since you are possibly effecting online/external users. You might be running a script that is inadvertantly triggering 1000's of simultaneious searches, doc pulls, etc against production, causing un-indended consequences. Make sure if you are doing anything in this space tha tyou know what you are doing!

Benjamin Ebby

You could start with the sample jruby code below. It is part of a spike I wrote a while back to inspect the novus API. Just load it into jirb (REPL).

require 'client.jar'
require 'jms.jar'
require 'xercesImpl.jar'
require 'xml-apis.jar'
require 'connector.jar'
require 'com.ibm.mqbind.jar'
require 'com.ibm.mq.jar'
require 'com.ibm.mqjms.jar'

import com.westgroup.novus.productapi.Novus;
import com.westgroup.novus.productapi.NovusException;

class Search

attr_accessor :search, :first_four, :document_array # Getters and setters

def initialize

end

def search_for(search_text, collection_text)

@novus = Novus.new
@novus.setQueueCriteria(nil, "client"); # Set the queue criteria
@novus.setResponseTimeout 30000 # Set the response timeout
@novus.useLatestPit # Use the latest point in time
@novus.setProductName "Cobalt" # Set the product name
@novus.setBusinessUnit "West" # Set the business unit
@novus.setRouteTag "cobalt" # Set the route tag
@novus.setUserId "Foldering Vertical" # Set the user id

puts 'Pit is ' + @novus.getPit
puts 'Searching for ' + search_text + ' in ' + collection_text

@search = @novus.getSearch # Create a search object from the novus object
@search.setQueryText search_text # Set the query text
@search.addCollectionSet collection_text # Add a collection set
@search.setQueryType 0 # Set the query type to natural language

# THIS FOLLOWING CODE BLOCK IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE SEARCH WORK
begin
@progress = @search.submit(true) # Create a progress object from the search object

while !@progress.isComplete()
puts 'Percent complete ' + @progress.getPercentComplete.to_s
puts 'Documents found ' + @progress.getDocsFound.to_s
@progress = @search.getProgress nil, 1000 # Make the progress object obtain the search progress
end
rescue
puts 'The search was unsuccessful!'
end
end

def print_first_four_docs
search_for 'puppy', 'w_csmn_cs' if @search == nil
@document_array = @search.get_search_result.get_all_documents
@first_four = ''
4.times do
@count = 0
@first_four += @document_array[@count].get_text
@count += 1
end
puts @first_four
end

def save_first_two_doc_results
search_for 'puppy', 'w_csmn_cs' if @search == nil
@first_four
4.times do
@count = 0
@first_four += @document_array[@count].get_text
@count += 1
end
File.open('first2results.xml', 'w') do |f|
f.puts(@first_four.to_s)
end
puts 'Saved first 2 results to first4results.xml'
end
end

puts "READY TO USE OUR SEARCH CLASS TO RUN A SEARCH"

Ryan Morlok

Cool. Thanks Benjamin!

David Carlson

You can use [NovusJython][1] (Jython plus Novus in the classpath) if you prefer to code in Python language. I've coded a lot of scripts in Jython to manage aspects of Novus's infrastructure (Search requests, load status, bounce engines, even a GUI) - you can use Product API through that as well although I only use the native API myself.

the above code would translate to something like:

import com.westgroup.novus as novus
pa = novus.productapi.Novus()
pa.setQueueCriteria(None, "client")
pa.setResponseTimeout(30000)
pa.useLatestPit()
pa.setProductName("WestlawNext")
pa.setBusinessUnit("West")
pa.setRouteTag("wln_something")
pa.setUserId("Foldering Vertical")
se = pa.getSearch()
se.setQueryText("laser cats")
se.addCollectionSet("w_csmn_cs")
se.setQueryType(0)
pr = se.submit(True)
while not pr.isComplete():
print 'Percent Complete:', pr.getPercentComplete()
print 'Docs found:', pr.getDocsFound()
pr = se.getProgress(None, 1000)

sr = se.getSearchResult()
docs = sr.getAllDocuments()

note that you'll have to explicitly exit somehow afterward as the middleware consumer is still listening.
[1]: http://nsawiki.int.westgroup.com/wiki/index.php/NovusJython

Ryan Morlok

Thanks David! I like seeing all the use of non-enterprisey languages to talk to Novus.

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