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Search Backend Onboarding Assignment

This is an assignment completed as part of onboarding to the SearchAssist team. Refer to this for full details of the requirements.

Versions

• Python: 3.9.7
• Flask: 3.0.3
• Celery: v5.4.0 (opalescent)
• ElasticSearch: 8.15.0
• RabbitMQ: 3.8.2
• MongoDB: 4.4.29 (shell)

Endpoints

Regular

1. Inserting Json into ES: http://localhost:5000/insert
2. Retrieve the status of a task: http://localhost:5000/get_status/<task_id>
3. Delete a record: http://localhost:5000/delete?index=&field=&value=
4. Return brief stats like how many unique genres, actors and directors are there in the entire dataset: http://localhost:5000/stats?index=movies
5. Conduct an exact match search on any field: http://localhost:5000/exact_search?index=&field=&value=

Embedding-based

1. Insert Json + Embeddings into ES: http://localhost:5000/insert_emb
2. Answer any question based on the ingested data: http://localhost:5000/vector_search?index=&size=&query=

Embedding model uses bge-m3 to embed and gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18 for generation.

Startup

Install RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, MongoDB.

Python requirements

Create a virtual environment and install from the requirements.txt file.

pip install -r requirements.txt

RabbitMQ

sudo systemctl enable rabbitmq-server
sudo systemctl start rabbitmq-server

ElasticSearch

./bin/elasticsearch

Celery Tasks

celery -A tasks worker --loglevel=info --concurrency=2

RabbitMQ Queue Receiver

python receive.py

Main File

python run.py