Searching for a record from the title about cernopendata-client HOT 1 OPEN

For some "unique" records it works well:

$ cernopendata-client get-metadata --title '/SingleElectron/Run2011A-v1/RAW'

However for many records the title is also referenced in other records, e.g. in Configuration files and elsewhere, which is why more than one record is found.

What we should do is to specify exact matching in a wanted field. We have actually an open issue about better --title matching, see #56.

This may need to (1) expose facets and indexes to the client-side command line so that people could specify things like --facet Dataset/Derived, or we might need to (2) alter some Elasticsearch mappings and analyzers on the server side to create better indexes for the exact and fuzzy searches to work better.

For example, WRT option (1), until we have nicer indexes on the server-side, our best bet would be to get the REST API JSON response and instead of returning "More than one record fit..." error message, go through the JSON output and do additional parsing to achieve what was wanted by the user (e.g. return only derived datasets, not configuration file records).

Furthermore, (3) I was going to open a new issue about searching metadata in any field, not only in titles. This comes from a CMS Open Data use case. So perhaps we could consider all this at once and address better searching together?

from cernopendata-client.