Website : http://linserv2.cims.nyu.edu:25001/searchoverflow/ A search engine for stack overflow queries
Instructions to Execute the Project:
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Download the data dump at: https://archive.org/download/stackexchange/stackoverflow.com-Posts.7z. - The software to unzip this dump can be found here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sevenzip/7-Zip/15.14/7z1514.exe?r=&ts=1462420514&use_mirror=liquidtelecom
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Extract the file Posts.xml
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The XML parser db.py can be found in the dataparser folder. - Instruction to run the XML parser db.py: python db.py
. - This will create the db dump "full_so_dump.db" in the same location where db.py is present. -
Proceed to the dir with build.gradle
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run :
- gradle clean
- gradle build
- gradle indexerjar
- gradle retrieverjar
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proceed to folder build/libs
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To build the Index: java -jar indexer-1.0.jar -index -db - This will build your the index in the specified folder.
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To retrieve the solution for a query: java -jar retriever-1.0.jar -index -db -q
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To deploy the website:
- go to the folder build/libs/
- you will find the file SearchOverflow-1.0.war
- Add it to the web apps directory in Apache Tomcat.
This should return the code snippet that is the best match for the query term.