interact hook is unclear

[cmacdonald]

I wasn't on slack, so perhaps I missed this, but I'm not sure on the purpose of the interact hook -- the README.md states: "to prepare for user interaction".

Is there a "user interaction"? Does this just mean "preparation before the search hook is called". What might we expect to go there?

• e.g. optimisation of the index??

[lintool]

The canonical case is Elasticsearch. Preparing for user interaction means spin up the daemons so the user can point a browser at the UI and play with its features.

For other images, it can just be running the shell... so users can ssh in and poke around - look at code, indexes, etc.

[arjenpdevries]

Terrier notebooks Craig!

[lintool]

Oh, that's a great idea!

The interact hook for Terrier would spin up its notebook and let users play with it...

[arjenpdevries]

Here's our take:
osirrc/olddog-docker@d20aa88

Basically, just start the database. Using docker exec -it olddog-docker-interact mclient -d robust04 you can then issue SQL queries on the document representations.