[TYPO3] indexed search results via JSON/XML

[Amiran Chyb]

hi there

I'd like to set up page serving indexed search results eg. for ajax  
requests. I know there's indexed search API for crawler, but I haven't  
seen anything like this for getting the search results. Has anybody done  
that?

One approach would be to modify the plugin to make it output results in  
some lightweight format and put the plugin on a clean page with all its  
headers disabled in TS etc.

Other way would be to use EiD page which would call the plugin code (up to  
getResultRows, I guess) and output them as JSON/XML/whatever.

#1 would have the overhead of all typo3 layers, since it would use a  
regular frontend plugin. #2, on the other hand, would be more difficult.  
I'm not sure what should be loaded to make search work in EiD, also, how  
should I call the functions from the plugin - is it possible at all from  
the basic eid page? Or should I rather recreate the plugin's basic  
functionality on my own (ie. ctrl+c ctrl+v plus some cleaning)?

thanks
Am