PagerSlim for Lucene Search

[rjpowers10]

I'm curious why the Search method in OrchardCore.Lucene.Controllers.SearchController returns a PagerSlim instead of a Pager. Is the performance really bad with a Pager? Are there any plans to use a Pager in the future? I think most users would expect to see a full pager for search results.

Sorry to question your design decisions, just figured I would ask :)

[jtkech]

Yes it is a lightweight pager, you may have to implement a custom search controller / view OR just override the Search.cshtml mvc view in your theme, as i remember under .../Views/{module}/{controller}/{action}.cshtml, so here YourTheme/Views/OrchardCore.Lucene/Search/Search.cshtml, and that would use a full pager.

With a lower precedence can also be just under YourTheme/Views/Shared/Search.cshtml, this is what is done under the blog theme but with a Search.liquid liquid file. Can also be defined in a module YourModule/Views/Shared/Search.cshtml if not defined in the theme that has precedence.

You can also override the Search-Form.cshtml and Search-Results.cshtml shape view templates under YourTheme/Views OR YourModule/Views if not defined in the current theme that has precedence.

[Skrypt]

PagerSlim has been used on the Search result page mainly because the full pager doesn't scale really well.
By default the PagerSlim will work but a full pager would require more work if we'd want it to be usable without any glitches in a scaled environment (multiple running docker containers for example).

Nothing prevents you though from using the full Pager by replacing the current one using the methods described by @jtkech in the previous comment.

[rjpowers10]

I agree that we could implement a custom search controller. I'm confused by the other answer which is to override Search.csthml. I understand how overriding views works but aren't I missing the information that I need to turn it into a full pager? The built in search controller returns a PagerSlim model so I don't think I have everything. Or am I not understanding the answer?

Either way, it's not critical for us. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[Skrypt]

Yes, we assume you are working with source code and making the changes in the controller.

you may have to implement a custom search controller

Or alternatively, eventually, the controller could use a theme / tenant setting which would make return a Pager or PagerSlim. If you want to contribute 😉