Sorry if duplicate post, I wasn't subscribed when I did the 1st one, so not sure if it was aloud or blocked by spam filters. This is my first "post", so I hope I'm doing this correctly. I've only used Google Groups or on-line forums in the past, never email based lists.
I'm using CLucene to index a custom ISAM legacy database of mine. The database holds emails and other messages. I've got the indexing working, and also the searching. However, our current (very slow) search method provides a "summary" for each search result. Basically fragments of the text around the words that were found. I have to read the records from my database for each result found by CLucene anyway, because I don't want to store all that data in Lucene, so I was thinking I would just scan my text manually to provide the same "summary" I'm currently providing. However, now I realize that isn't as simple as it was before, because I don't always know what words/phrases (I think Lucene calls them "terms") were found. For example, if the user does a fuzzy or wildcard search. Without recreating the CLucene logic, how can I do this? I understand that there are some additional libraries (maybe only for the Java version?) that do "highlighting", which is similar to what I want to do. I haven't found any source code for them yet, and even if I did, I'm not sure I could figure out how to extract that and recreate for my purposes (they may assume the text is stored in Lucene, or that I want the results in HTML format). My scenario seems to be unique, because I'm not working with a website, or indexing basic files. If I could find the section of code in CLucene where it "finds" results for my query, then I would know what words it found for each document. I'm not too worried about showing the "most relavent" fragments at this point, although that would be a nice feature down the road. p.s.-I'm loving CLucene so far, and if I can get past this last hurdle, I should be set =] -Eric Selk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ CLucene-developers mailing list CLucene-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clucene-developers
