Order of search results

[Jan Ouwens]

Thanks for making such a nice tool, I love it!

I was wondering if it's possible to add some order to the search results of mcs class-search. Specifically, if it's possible to show the results in descending order of Last updated.

For instance:

└─❯ mcs class-search EqualsVerifier
Searching for artifacts containing EqualsVerifier...
Found 196 results (showing 20)

  Coordinates                                   Last updated
  ===========                                   ============
  org.atlanmod.commons:commons-testing:1.0.6    13 Oct 2020 at 08:45 (CEST)
  org.atlanmod.commons:commons-testing:1.0.5    10 May 2020 at 18:18 (CEST)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.2.0            06 Mar 2014 at 22:05 (CET)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.3.1            03 Jun 2014 at 09:58 (CEST)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.3.0            28 May 2014 at 23:21 (CEST)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.3.3            10 Jun 2014 at 21:55 (CEST)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.3.2            06 Jun 2014 at 23:30 (CEST)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.4.0            16 Nov 2016 at 14:33 (CET)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.3.6            25 Feb 2015 at 18:38 (CET)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.3.5            26 Sep 2014 at 19:30 (CEST)
  name.didier.david:ndd-test4j:0.3.4            26 Jun 2014 at 10:33 (CEST)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.4.1   18 Mar 2014 at 12:30 (CET)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.4     27 Dec 2013 at 13:12 (CET)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.3.1   09 Jun 2013 at 17:05 (CEST)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.3     09 Jun 2013 at 15:54 (CEST)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.2     26 Mar 2013 at 19:15 (CET)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.1.4   14 Jan 2013 at 16:27 (CET)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.1.3   21 Apr 2012 at 15:00 (CEST)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.1.2   01 Mar 2012 at 21:08 (CET)
  nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier:1.1.1   21 Feb 2012 at 11:08 (CET)

The most recent result here is from 2020, and the most recent one that is actually from EqualsVerifier itself, is from 2014. I happen to know that the most recent version of EqualsVerifier is less than a day old at the time of writing 😉

Of course I don't know how the search is implemented and if this is even possible (or feasible), but it sure would be nice.

[Maarten Mulders]

I happen to know that the most recent version of EqualsVerifier is less than a day old at the time of writing

And you are a very trustworthy source on this 👍🏻

On-topic: I was about to say this may be caused by the fact that mcs uses search.maven.org under the hood, and their sometimes lags behind a bit. But to my surprise, the second page of search results on their website does include more recent releases of EqualsVerifier. So that doesn't quite make sense....

I'll have a better look if their REST API allows for sorting. Of course, mcs could do it client-side, but that would mean it should fetch all pages from the server before sorting could take place. So that'd be quite a performance hit...

[Jan Ouwens]

Hm, yeah, if you have to download everything and the sort it, that would probably not make sense. Let's hope search.maven.org has a sorting feature. Or perhaps the possibility to show only 1 version of each groupId/artifactId combination; that would also bring more relevant results to the top of the list, I suppose.