search: force re-index command
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Description
## Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I want to force the search service to rebuild the search index for a space / all spaces.
This can currently only be done by deleting the bleve database because search tries to outsmart me and says:
```
ocis-1 | {"level":"debug","service":"search","path":".","time":"2024-05-08T12:48:54Z","line":"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/search/pkg/search/service.go:419","message":"Walking tree"}
ocis-1 | {"level":"debug","service":"search","path":".","time":"2024-05-08T12:48:54Z","line":"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/search/pkg/search/service.go:427","message":"subtree hasn't changed. Skipping."}
ocis-1 | {"level":"debug","service":"search","count":2,"time":"2024-05-08T12:48:54Z","line":"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/search/pkg/search/search.go:67","message":"new document count"}
```
What it doesn't know: I might have enabled OCR on the Tika side in the meantime.
## Describe the solution you'd like
Introduce a `--force` option, eg. `ocis search index --force`. It would do the reindexing even there were no changes detected.
## Describe alternatives you've considered
Deleting the whole bleve database. But that creates a downtime of the search index until it has been completely rebuilt. The proposed solution could work in place / only have a search "downtime" for the space we're re-indexing.
## Additional context
search service re-index using service account: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/issues/9103
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