it prepares the new architecture change,
everything about multithreading in moved in the searx.search.* packages
previously the call to the "init" function of the engines was done in searx.engines:
* the network was not set (request not sent using the defined proxy)
* it requires to monkey patch the code to avoid HTTP requests during the tests
Report to the user suspended engines.
searx.search.processor.abstract:
* manages suspend time (per network).
* reports suspended time to the ResultContainer (method extend_container_if_suspended)
* adds the results to the ResultContainer (method extend_container)
* handles exceptions (method handle_exception)
from_bang is True when the user query contains a bang.
In this case the category is also set to 'none'.
from_bang only usage was in searx.webadapter.parse_specific :
if from_bang is True, then the EngineRef category is ignored and force to 'none'.
This commit also removes the searx.webadapter.parse_sepecific function.
see searx.search.processors.abstract.EngineProcessor
First the method searx call the get_params method.
If the return value is not None, then the searx call the method search.
Alexandre Flament
Markus Heiser
Adam Tauber