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Custom Search Command (V2/Chunked): Persist script

spunk_enthusias
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Hi! Long time listener, first time caller here.

Our custom search command needs some slow initialization, which we would prefer to skip on repeated calls.

Is there a way to keep the process alive after the first invocation and only call dispatch() afterwards?
Something that does what scripttype = persist does for REST endpoints.

My understanding is that the protocol would allow this.

Calling dispatch() in a loop sadly doesn't work - would've been too easy, huh?
(It does work in so far that the command finishes - it's just that the script gets started again the next time)

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