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feat: file search for Windows#762

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@SteveLauC SteveLauC commented Jul 14, 2025

What does this PR do

This commit implements the file search extension for Windows platforms using the Windows Search functionality.

Something to note:

  1. Searching by file content is not natively supported. Coco would search for all the columns (attributes/fields within the index) with this option:
        SearchBy::NameAndContents => {
            // Windows File Search does not support searching by file content.
            //
            // `CONTAINS('query_string')` would search all columns for `query_string`,
            // this is the closest solution we have.
            format!("((System.FileName LIKE '%{query_string}%') OR CONTAINS('{query_string}'))")
        }
  1. Tests have been added, but they failed in our CI for unknown reasons so I disabled them:
// Skip these tests in our CI, they fail with the following error 
// "SQL is invalid: "0x80041820""
// 
// I have no idea about the underlying root cause
#[cfg(all(test, not(ci)))]
mod test {
  1. The Windows Search index is not real-time and can return obsolete results. Opening the returned documents could fail if the chosen file has been deleted or moved.

Rationale for this change

Standards checklist

  • The PR title is descriptive
  • The commit messages are semantic
  • Necessary tests are added
  • Updated the release notes
  • Necessary documents have been added if this is a new feature
  • Performance tests checked, no obvious performance degradation

@SteveLauC SteveLauC force-pushed the feat/windows_file_search branch 2 times, most recently from 509cfbc to 45fb24c Compare July 14, 2025 09:33
@SteveLauC SteveLauC changed the title Feat/windows file search feat: file search for Windows Jul 14, 2025
@SteveLauC SteveLauC force-pushed the feat/windows_file_search branch from 8e62c24 to 6159658 Compare July 15, 2025 09:51
@SteveLauC SteveLauC force-pushed the feat/windows_file_search branch from 6b36725 to 5d61e10 Compare July 15, 2025 10:25
@SteveLauC SteveLauC marked this pull request as ready for review July 15, 2025 10:42
@SteveLauC SteveLauC merged commit c8a723e into main Jul 16, 2025
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@SteveLauC SteveLauC deleted the feat/windows_file_search branch July 16, 2025 01:11
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