New subject: New search box on the portal and prefixsearch api call

11 Mar 2016

Hi,

first of all: congrats for this new search box!

I noticed that you use action=query with both generator=prefixsearch and 
list=prefixsearch.
IIRC when we looked at this (it was when we looked at the way some API 
consumers generates their requests) we noticed that it generates 2 
prefixsearch queries on the backend. I think this adds unnecessary latency.

Unfortunately I don't know why you need to use list and generator at the 
same time, is this a limitation of the API?
If we can't fix the API call could we work on a cache at the backend 
level to avoid 2 elasticsearch queries?

Thanks!