Similar Documents Scripting Components

There are two built-in pipeline stages that enable pre-processing a similar documents request before executing it in the search engine, as well as post-processing (or even generating) the similar documents results:

• Similar Documents Query Processor
• Similar Documents Results Processor

Similar Documents Query Processor 

• • Enables processing the similar documents request before sending it to the search engine back-end
    
  • Usage examples:
    • Block the similar documents request for some of the content by search callers
    • Remove one of the metadata values from the similar documents request if that value is on a specific black list
    • etc.

Similar Documents Results Processor

• • Enables post-processing of the similar results returned by the search engine to either
    • Generate similar documents results
      
    • Query external services
      
  • Usage examples:
    • Post-process similar documents results metadata
    • Filter results based on specific restrictions
    • Query external services or data sources and inject similar additional similar documents results
    • etc.